Does this mean you found a technical co-founder, and they preferred Ruby/Rails to Django/Python?
Not attempting to start a language debate, honestly. In my experience, I've found that in most cases, they're fairly interchangeable, but I am genuinely curious how you got from that post to this one.
My apologies in advance if that's listed in your blog -- I read this entry, but I do not generally follow it. If there's an answer somewhere, I wouldn't take offense to a link and a "RTFM".
How I went from Python to Ruby? I tried Python a couple of times on my own, "Python the Hardway" tutorials, etc. I was looking for a mentor to step through the process with me. Devbootcamp came along and offered a room of mentors. I jumped all over it. I'm not concerned with the language, just the ability to code. I plan on learning Python sometime in the near future as well.
Was devbootcamp free when you did it? I was having almost this same conversation via email with ezl, and while I don't doubt that there are tons of Ruby/Rails resources with mentors that are very good, I find it interesting that there is a large enough dearth of resources in the Python/Django arena to warrant a $10-$12,000 course for Ruby that would work.
While I fully understand that LPTHW isn't nearly the same experience, I guess I just never noticed how little tutorials there are for Python when there is obviously so much documentation.
Regardless, congratulations on your progress. Please keep us updated, as your post was quite informative.
To those who don't know him, you guys might remember him from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332349
That was him about a year ago, and a lot of people called it the best "looking for a tech cofounder" post they had ever seen.
A year ago, he was an awesome hustler/non-tech founder looking for a tech founder. Now he can deploy his own apps too. Just another data point for how far he's willing to go to get success.
Congrats adennis, looking forward to great things from you.