Web Dev Communities
Ran across this article from Marco Tabini and along with being pretty insightful it cracked me up, and I thought was worth sharing:
The Accidental Businessman: Communities.
Now I’ve not actually been part of the Ruby community, but I can tell you that when I cross paths with someone who is from it, I generally come away feeling the same way that Marco does.
The contrast of the PHP and Python communities was pretty good. Having recently dipped my toe into the Python community I would have to agree with the keg party vs study group metaphor. Though I did tend to find the python folks overly harsh and often misinformed when it came to criticism of PHPers. Maybe our party music is disturbing their studies :)
