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For the last week or two, I’ve started teaching myself some Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I figured I’d start looking at this to complement some self study in Mac/iPhone/iPad programming. (With a bit of Git for source control).

For some reason, there seems to be a lot Mac (using) developers in the Ruby world. Also, I find it pretty interesting because Ruby was invented by a Japanese chap (“Matz – まつもとゆきひろ“), so you end up seeing a lot of Japanese names for various Ruby utilities, tools and frameworks.

Once I feel a bit more comfortable with Rails, I’m probably going to attempt two ‘home projects’. The first is an idea for a web-app (which I’m keeping secret for now), which has potential for having a iPhone and iPad rich client (but with a web front end as a fall back). The second is basically handcrafting a ‘CMS’ for this blog and replacing the WordPress blog. Sure, it would be easy just using a free downloadable too, but writing my own CMS means I can tweak it and gives me some focus.

There are some good resources for getting started with Ruby and Rails.
Programming Ruby 1.9
Ruby Koans
Rails for Zombies
Agile Web Development with Rails
Crafting Rails Applications

WTF! Looks like my location is there based on the MAC address of my home router! Are you, check at Android Map. Not bad considering I don’t have an Android device. So either someone nearby attempted to use my locked down Wi-Fi with an Android device, or this is old data from when Google went around scanning Wi-Fi from their Google Street View cars.

Google, and Apple too, are starting to annoy me.
More here (Google) and here (Apple).

Made me laugh (even though I own some Apple kit myself… still not convinced by the iPad though).

ROFL.

Classic ‘The Onion’ news story.
New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products