The Plan Collection
I have spent the past few weeks working on two projects. One is brand new and very exciting - houseplans.info. I developed that site in Ruby on Rails and it uses mysql on the backend. That project took me about four weeks working a few hours in the evenings. It is a joy to work on. I compare that to The Plan Collection which I have spent the last 7 years working on. It is written in old ASP and is painful to work on. I have been updating it to ASP.Net here and there and it just isn't as much fun as working in Ruby on Rails. By fun I mean that in twenty seconds I can setup url rewrites in Rails while I spent several days testing, debugging and cussing url rewrites in ASP.Net. I'm still not done. So far I am still unable to find a way for a form to post back to the rewritten url. ASP.Net happily ignores the rewrite and sets the form postback for you and refuses to give you a way to change it.
Open source is so much better and lets me be in a happy place.
Justin Ball is a software consultant and entrepreneur with a passion for Ruby. He evolved from a C++ and .Net monkey into a python programmer and finally found Ruby. In the rare moments when he isn't writing code, talking about code or measuring his code productivity in profanity per hour, you can find him on his bike in the mountains or on the roads surrounding Cache Valley. 
