Forwarding from my GMail.com account because the message was not received. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 8:39 PM Subject: Re: railsgirls To: "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> Cc: linux-il <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>, shlo...@gmail.com
Hi Eliyahu, On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:02:26 +0200 "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il> wrote: > http://railsgirls.co.il/ > > Pretty cool initiative, how was that never mentioned on this list, or have > I been sleeping? I don't think it was, but I'm suffering from information overload, so I don't remember if it was posted there. Anywhere, there's been a lot of activity online and offline that hasn't been mentioned on Linux-IL, in part because there are other resources now, in part because there's been a huge fragmentation, and in part because people forget or neglect to announce in all the proper channels. The so-called "Ruby Underground" meetups are not even announced on the Ruby-Israel mailing list ( http://www.iglu.org.il/mailing-lists/ruby-il.html). > It does seem like a welcome and "cool" initiative. However, here is my commentary on the page: 1. I appreciate that the page has a clean and uncluttered design. That's good. 2. When JavaScript is whitelisted, the page rotates the images (which causes distraction) and there is no visible widget to cancel it, nor is the "Stop animations" feature of Firefox able to prevent it from being animated. I decided to blacklist JavaScript again. ( I tested it with an animated GIF and it worked, but I guess it cannot handle all forms of JS/CSS3 animations - at least not yet). That's bad. 3. The logo at the top says "Rails Girls was created in order to give girls and women the tools to build[sic] their ideas.". Assuming I were a girl, this does indeed sound "awesome", but it's too vague - which tools and which ideas? Will it allow me to build a bike like the one pictured below the logo? Will it allow me to buy a spaceship? Why not get to the point and tell me what you are all about. Show me the money!!! There's nothing wrong with teaching web development so just say that that is what you do. That's bad. Similarly, one of my first bad impressions of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngularJS was that its web-site simply said "AngularJS - The Superheroic JavaScript library.". Fine, you think it is awesome. You think it's "superheroic". Bleh! Please tell me why! I want to know something I don't know, for example what AngularJS is all about, and/or why and when should I consider using it. 4. There is no visible contact information anywhere on the page (not even when JavaScript is enabled). The only links are for converting the messages from Hebrew to English and back, and to the "Get started here" (in Hebrew singular feminine form, which excludes me as a guy - possibly on purpose). I hope there are people whom I can get in touch with with this and the rest of my criticism either here or on Ruby-Israel (where I'm going to forward this message), but it's still annoying and frustrating - see http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/#obscure_email_addr . Note: a usable contact form would be better than nothing, but don't be disillusioned that it will 100% prevent spam. > (I found it through this kickstarter which I think also sounds very cool > for anyone who would like their kids to know programming: > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lindaliukas/hello-ruby even though I > myself use other languages) I may check it out thanks - still have not followed the link to kickstarter. Sorry if the tone of the message was too flamatory. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/ Whitespace in Python is not a problem: just lay out all the whitespace first, then add the code around it. -- sizz on Freenode's #perl Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- ------------------------------------------ Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
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