A little update

sbecker — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:54:00 -0800

A quick update:

I’ve finally left (or begun moving from) the dark side. I bought a MacBook Pro. Much $$$, but I’ve been planning this for a while. Now I have to wait a month to get it! Damn!
My 3 year old Gateway laptop screen died. So I sent it in for repair. As soon as I got it back, the hard drive promptly went kaput. I have to send it back again. I miss having a laptop.
I’m going to SXSW Interactive! I hope to meet all you web people there.
I’m also going to RailsConf! And I’ll have my mac laptop by then, so I can be cool like the rest of the gang.
I bought the Rails Recipes book, very nice.
I tried to get Rails accepted at my part-time day job, and got shut down. It’s all .NET there, all the time. What a shame. Their preference is to continue paying exorbitant Microsoft licensing fees, when better, faster alternatives exist for free. I have to grin and bear it. I’ve got some decent ORM database stuff going now, but its just not the same. Not even close.
I’ve just wrapped up my latest two major Rails projects. I should probably write those up here sometime soon.

To all who want the Grid control – yeah it works, but the code is sloppy and not very Rails-ish. Too much view logic in the controller. I want to re-write it before I put anything out there with my name on it. I’ll start “Getting Real” soon, I promise!

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A little update