Top of the list of happenings I somehow missed in June, but still worth mentioning now, is the fact that the creator of Ruby on Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson, made it to no 34 in the Business 2.0 list of 50 People Who Matter Now. Rather entertainingly he’s one ahead of Tim O’Reilly, but still 34 places behind myself (and you, and your family, and everybody you know, because the number one person is “You: The consumer as creator”. Cute.)

That’s not bad for somebody who was, until just a few years ago, an unknown software developer. But even the fact that David is included in the list shows just how much Rails and “Web 2.0” technologies matter right now. People outside of computing are taking notice.

To quote from the article:

[Rails] has made it dramatically faster and cheaper to build dynamic websites—a transformation that’s done much to help make today’s crop of Web 2.0 startups so successful [...] The future of software looks a lot less cumbersome, and for that we have Hansson to thank.