Rob did some interesting and influential things in the .NET community which stems from exactly what he wrote about: his work with Ruby and Rails. I've come fro

Rob did some interesting and influential things in the .NET community which stems from exactly what he wrote about: his work with Ruby and Rails. I've come from the Microsoft (Windows 32-bit API) to .NET Fx to Linux/Unix world in much the same way as Rob; ASP.NET to Rails. There is a certain reality I have learned over the years: when I consult part time and don't mind sometimes boring work I earn twice as much writing C# than Ruby. The money is in the enterprise. Of course at my day job I write Scala and figure out ways to get the most amount of Ruby [or sometimes Python] I possibly can into our day to day work. I love optimizing for productivity and happiness.