Jamie’s Weblog

So, I’ve been out of work for the past 3 months since the accident but recently I haven’t been entirely idle.  I’ve finished off the personal finance site I first talked about almost a year ago and I’ve also written 2 other Ruby-on-Rails websites and got them deployed.  These aren’t fancy sites but they fill various personal needs.  I’ll announce each site when I’m happy to let others play with them.

Ruby is actually a pretty cool language and Rails is certainly a reasonably quick framework to use (once you figure out the documentation and various magic incantations).  It took a lot longer than I was hoping to learn the Ruby language and understand the Rails framework, but then I was only working on it occasionally and I’m not a web developer.  It’s certainly better than writing Java code and adds another feather to my l33t programming skillz ;-)  Java for work; Ruby for pleasure.