Circuit City, may I please direct you to my comments about Zed. At least FedEx was at least professional when they took my call, they stay in the I’m-annoyed-but-I’ll-still-work-with-you category.
Both could use a healthy dose of Joel’s advice.
Circuit City, you’re fired.
Thanks for Mongrel, Zed — don’t let the door hit you…
I’m not sad to see the writer of Mongrel leave. Not one bit. I’m not sure what Dave Thomas was reading earlier today, but I don’t have anything positive to say about it.
I like Mongrel. I’ve read Zed Shaw’s article rant on programmers and statistics, and I liked it quite a bit — though I prefer his Ruby/Odeum vs. Lucene Analysis Part 2 since it lays out a more clear example of his opinion about how to properly use statistics to analyze software (amazing — Zed can make a set of useful points without using the F-word!!).
But as an outsider to whatever caused his Rails rant, he just doesn’t come off as credible when he makes silly pointless wildly exaggerated claims about his skills and situation and then begs dares challenges asks anyone disagreeing with him (except Humility) to start an all out fist fight.
