Interesting take on things. One thing that gets me though is when people try way too hard to convince you to use something. That can sometimes backfire. You sta

Interesting take on things. One thing that gets me though is when people try way too hard to convince you to use something. That can sometimes backfire. You start wondering if there's a cult involved or if they're on commission. Examples would be git,twitter,rails,etc - basically all the 'hip cool so hot right now!!!' stuff. I think the other thing is that 'early adopter' can be confused with 'shameless fashion follower'. The difference there is easy to see in hindsight, but a little trickier when you don't yet know how big something is going to be. There's no doubt though that this industry has tons of 'fashions', with people being in the 'in crowd', using the 'in tools', then a couple of years later ditching all that and moving onto the next hyped up thing and starting again from scratch. Perhaps I'm just getting old ;)