Hello Everybody

[apatzer]

Hi,

Since I'm new to the group, I thought I'd introduce myself. I've been a longtime J2EE developer who has written a few books on the topic for both Wrox and Apress. A few years ago, while looking for a way to automate some OR mappings, I decided to try Ruby and I instantly fell in love.

Well, after using it for the past few years as a utility language, I'm now working in a Bioinformatics lab where I can start using it for real applications. I look forward to sharing ideas with the rest of you. I've 'lurked' around here before, but I've decided to get more involved now.

I have begun writing a new book for Apress, "Pro Ruby". I hope to bring my expertise as an enterprise software architect, and experience as an author, to the Ruby community. My approach is to show how Ruby can be used as an enterprise development platform and how it can be used in place of J2EE for many, if not all, tasks.

If any of you have ideas you'd like to share, feel free to email me at (e-mail address removed), or through this list if you'd like to share it with everyone.

Thanks!

Andrew Patzer

 

[Tom Copeland]

Hi,

Since I'm new to the group, I thought I'd introduce myself.

Welcome aboard!

Yours,

Tom

 

[Phil Tomson]

Hi,

Since I'm new to the group, I thought I'd introduce myself. I've been a
longtime J2EE developer who has written a few books on the topic for
both Wrox and Apress. A few years ago, while looking for a way to
automate some OR mappings, I decided to try Ruby and I instantly fell
in love.

Well, after using it for the past few years as a utility language, I'm
now working in a Bioinformatics lab where I can start using it for real
applications. I look forward to sharing ideas with the rest of you.
I've 'lurked' around here before, but I've decided to get more involved
now.

I have begun writing a new book for Apress, "Pro Ruby". I hope to bring
my expertise as an enterprise software architect, and experience as an
author, to the Ruby community. My approach is to show how Ruby can be
used as an enterprise development platform and how it can be used in
place of J2EE for many, if not all, tasks.

If any of you have ideas you'd like to share, feel free to email me at
(e-mail address removed), or through this list if you'd like to share it with
everyone.

Question: How did you get into Bioinformatics? I'm interested in the
field and I'm wondering how much Ruby is being used in it.


Phil