About the Softies on Rails

We are Brian Eng and Jeff Cohen.

A couple of years ago, we were building a next-generation point-of-sale system at a big retail company here in the Chicago area. It was good times – hacking .NET code, building touchscreen interfaces and Tablet PC applications. Sounds fun, doesn't it?

But suddenly, in the summer of 2005, we were blindsided by Rails. Brian wanted to get back into web development. Jeff had a love affair with the Ruby language. We said goodbye to both our more-than-decade-long careers working with .NET and dove in head-first. This blog tells the story of us flopping around, trying to make sense of it all.

Want to get in touch? Try brian (or jeff) at luckymonk.