I’ve made some more progress with Ruby on Rails and have also got some of my ideas down to flesh out the project I want to create with it. It should be a fairly easy project that I can build up over time and mould into something pretty cool.
In related news: Git is awesome. I prefer it over the alternatives. I never really used it until I started this RoR thing, but now I wouldn’t use anything else.
I’ve been learning some Ruby on Rails recently, it’s been pretty good fun. If you are looking to get started with some RoR, here’s some of the recources i used:
I’ve also got two books on the way to use as a reference and help me along:
It’s going pretty well and I’m enjoying it. I’ve got some ideas that prompted me to learn this, as I wanted to use something other than my normal web development process, which involved stacks of PHP. I do like PHP, but I do occasionally feel the need to learn some new stuff on occasion. I like the way Rails provides a nice framework for everything, this foray into new territory might improve my web design too!
Just a quick update, i’m working on some basslines for the metal tracks me and my mate are working on. I havent got any audio recorded yet (I’m still loving Reaper!) or anything down solid, but it’s progressing pretty quickly, so there should be something to show for it pretty soon. There should be 7-8 tracks once we are done, we will probably get a few out there to download for free, to see how people like them.
I read this post the other day, it really resonated with me, as I’m starting to feel some of those symptoms (eyes, back, vitamin d). It’s a great post and definitely gave me some things to think about, especially with posture.
If you use a computer a lot, check it out. If you play guitar/bass an instrument a lot, check it out. If you sit down a lot… Check it out, I think you get the idea.
I decided on creating a private wiki for some of my ideas/random stuff, so that i could have a private working area i can access from anywhere. I like DokuWiki, so I searched out an authentication plugin, so i could use my wordpress login with DokuWiki. The plugin did need a little bit of tweaking to work with Wordpress 3.1 though.
If you comment out/remove:
require( ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/classes.php’ );
As the file doesnt exist in WP3.1
Then add:
require( ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/class-wp.php’ );
require( ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/class-wp-error.php’ );
Tested with WordPress 3.1 and DokuWiki-2010-11-07a. Things appear to work with no issues.
Massive thanks to Collin Green, plugins like these are really useful, but it’s something I wouldn’t have bothered to write just for my site (although now I’ve used it, It might find its way into use with i3Portal when we get that going).