RE: [FR-devel] Hello FreeRide-Devel!

[Curt Hibbs]

Michael wrote:
>
> I'm new to this list since May.
>
> I am in the inhouse bureau management organisation unit of a computing
> center. My job is to support Windows NT / XP PCs,  Palms, Handys,
> notebooks and other technical units of 3000 end users (validation of  SW
> and HW, software distribution inhouse, building and intregration of new
> technics / technologies (SW and HW) for end users within projects).
> Computing is my hobby and now it is my job, although I am an electric
> engineer for message communications (high frequenz technology).
>
> I found this tool FreeRide in the deep of the internet while I was
> searching for some tools to collect / build my own IDE. So I started to
> search a simple object language for fast developing and found Ruby. You
> know the advantadges of Ruby! (JavaScript within Mozilla as IDE-base was
> in my point of view not the best choice)

That's what they used for the Komodo IDE, but I have worked extensively with
Mozilla in the past and I would agree with you. Besides if I was going to do
a non-Ruby IDE I would probably work with Eclipse.

> With such an IDE like FreeRide I will be writing / developing and
> testing my ideas of a new kind of "desktop".
>
> I like to work within this developer group to make FreeRide the best
> Ruby IDE, after finishing my computing center project "Inhouse Windows
> XP and Citrix Client Rollout".

That's great! We can always use a little more help.

Curt