Working Full Time

I’ve been working for almost 7 years as part timer/free lancer. It never made sense to me to work full time. As of Sunday next week, a big change in my life will happen, I will start working full time with Al Bawaba. I will be working as the CTO of the company. Al Bawaba seems to offer most of the exciting things that define the kind of work I want to be involved in.

We have so many fresh and exciting plans that are so challenging. A few web 2.0 ideas that we’re working on. And above all, Albawaba supports open source, and 95% of the technology is open source.

At the same time, I will be running my own company (still under
construction), where we will be doing heavy web development, and some
customized software for inancial services companies. I guess my social life is gonna kiss my ass good bye.

It’s gonna be a hard change in my life, I will start having to sleep early, waking up early, no more swingers night-life-style.

Ruby On Rails – Go Duck Yourself

I’m not alone, read what this guy had to go through when he migrated to RoR from PHP, and then went back!

I’m always angry when someone mentions RoR, it’s like teaching a new dog new tricks, when the old dog knows it all.

For the love of god, stop migrating to RoR just because it’s cool. No one ever said RoR sucks, it’s just that there’s SO much pre-exisitng PHP code that you would never find in any other language. 40% of the top 100 sites are PHP, and PHP is the most used language on the Internet. What else do you want to know?

PHP does have tons of frameworks, yet doesn’t force a style or a paradigm. You can do whatever you want with it, you can even build the biggest, most trafficked site in the universe!

Why the hell do you even want to consider something else!

Update: Why don’t you also check an entry I wrote about ColdFusion few years ago