From Ruby to Rails
Well I had to dive in and try Rails. Although Ruby is completely independent of Rails, we live in a web-based world, and as a result you can’t talk Ruby with hearing about Rails.
First impressions, pretty cool. To learn it, you need a damned fine book. I wouldn’t recommend poking [...]
Is Ruby too clever?
Before we go there, personally, I think that Perl is clever language. Damned clever! The magical tricks you can do in Perl’s land of plenty is unreal. As such, Perl tends to attract clever people that wrestle with this huge bunking behemoth of a language in a vain attempt to wrestle it under [...]
Off the Rails…
Well that was strange!
After following some rather smashing guides for configuring your Mac for Rails, I needed a good tutorials for writing your first Rails web application. The funny thing is that if you haven’t got a web site that is database backed, most of the Hello World Rails Tutorials are pretty [...]
Mac OS X – Linux for Dummies?
Outside of work, I’m responsible for two sites really, clevegibbon.com and helent.co.uk. Both are very simple html sites that have been designed in DreamWeaver. I have decided to move away from DreamWeaver and implement clevegibbon.com in Ruby and helent.co.uk in php.
Now, I have recently dropped the Windows desktop and migrated over to [...]
The Xmas Race is On!
It’s been a game of two halves, and we’re entering extra time!
Our house renovation, well the major parts of it, centre around the kitchen. We still have the sitting room and kitchen to sort out before xmas. We need a floor, cabinets, oven, worksurface, sitting room floor and kitchen sink before we can cook [...]
A fact is like a sack…
I’m reading a great a little book on “the myths of innovation” by scott berkun and came across this great quote by the prominent historian Edward Carr:
“It used to be said that facts speak for themselves. This is of course untrue. The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is [...]
The Road from Developer to Engineer
What are you then – a developer or an engineer? I think there is a difference the two, and not all developers want and/or make it to engineer.
A developer is someone who can write a piece of software, regardless of whether it works or not. That pretty much includes anyone who can (a) [...]
