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   by gerry 19y ago

   How can it be a cash cow when there is no direct revenue from it? Rails is fantastic advertising for their company but it's their products that make them money. Rails just brings awareness.
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   by gerry 19y ago

   Learn by doing. One way that I do is try to implement existing sites. This lets you concentrate on building the product instead of designing how it will look and feel. For example. Building this site in RoR would be a great exercise as
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   by gerry 19y ago

   That's a crazy idea when you can same performance from a VPS with no capital costs and cheaper hosting AND better reliability. Read my findings here: http://www.productcriticblog.com/2007/02/startup-lessons-from-productcritic-save.html