The Origin of RubyHead
I don’t know if I mentioned before, but the name “RubyHead” came from “CocoaHead”. Many many years ago before the iPhone, I was thinking about going “indie”. At the time, people were saying crap like “oh, Apple is going to declare bankruptcy…” and Michael Dell even said that Apple should return the money to the stockholders.
The reason why I didn’t make the jump was the fact that I got married and had to think about my lovely wife. Being a CTO was very good to my financial health and lifestyle, and it’s really hard to give that up because I wanted to do something I enjoy. How selfish of me. If you want to know what it’s like, take a look at Drunken Batman’s video. Just google it and you’ll see.
This me brings back to today. I have made the jump to do what I enjoy, working with Ruby. Sure, I always work with the code that makes me wonder why they even wrote it in Ruby, but nevertheless I enjoy the challenge, somewhat.
So, next time you meet a “Ruby Guy” or “Java Guy”, ask them where they’ve been, you’ll find it interesting.
