Sounds cheeky, that. 
Playing with Ruby on Rails in my spare time, which isn’t much now that I’ve moved to a new workplace.
ROR, at first glance, seems pretty tame. I’m not a full-fledged developer, so I wouldn’t know the nuances of the language, but being able to rapidly prototype an app is a pretty good deal in my book, and ROR passes that fairly.
I’m using the Instant Rails suite for this ROR play — I haven’t found the time (yet) to install ROR on Linux. Instant Rails is nifty: it has Apache, MySQL, PHP and ROR in a static location on your disk. The configuration file is smart enough (or dumb, depending on how you look at it) to know that the program locations have changed, so it adjusts accordingly. Deploying an application is straightforward: just edit the hosts file, start up Mongrel, and you can view the instance on your browser.
I’ll update this space on my progress.
After weeks of summer heat, it finally rained here in the metro. So I killed time in the mall. Free WiFi! Some updates are in order:
- I’m settling in at work, though there isn’t much to do yet except to get a feel of the system.
- The new workplace is an eye-opener. Lots of tech (*nix, net, Windows) geeks there. There’s this mailing list I subscribed to, and, man, the topics they tackle there are deep, in a hard-core geeky way.
- My son, Gabriel, passed the Department of Education’s special education curriculum exams. Four tough exams, would you believe? And that’s for Grade One! I got to accompany him for his math exam about three weeks ago, and I feel for the kids. I mean, the exam was about a hundred or so items. I even saw one kid crying while taking the test.
- The small one, Julian, is growing very fast, and showing signs of mischief already.
- Peng (the wife), on the other hand, is getting bored with work. Right now, she’s thinking of starting a business. Gotta help her with that.
Paul Franco was born premature. His daddy, Paolo Alexis Falcone, is an officer of the Philippine Linux Users Group. I hope we can extend all the help that we possibly can for Paolo’s family. Prayers, financial and emotional support are what they need right now.
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