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5 Ruby & Rails Entries

• 02-11-2008 Cake Fun Well, I’ve been getting a good deal of on-the-job Rails practice, and am appreciating how well thought-out the framework is more and more. In contrast, CakePHP is missing a vast number of features. But it’s still quite promising. I’ve decided against playing with Symfony for now, as it’s annoyingly complex and just doesn’t feel right [...]
• 01-01-2008 Happy New Year! So it may be a day late, but I get up in the afternoon! Hope everyone had a grand entrance to their respective new years.
  
  Resolutions for me?
  
  Rails. Become an absolute master.
  
  PHP frameworks. Likewise, play with various PHP codebases (so far Akelos, Symfony and CakePHP are on [...]
• 07-30-2007 Nutech, ad nauseum Well, I’ve been playing with Rails a bit more at work now, building a project tracker system for internal use. It’s been a great learning experience, however little time I’ve had to spend on it, and I believe my relational mapping skills have come around on it. I’ve learned how important it is to plan [...]
• 07-04-2007 Recent Tech Review Well, it’s been a cool few weeks lately. Safari has come out on Windows (posting from it now… minus TinyMCE of course) and it is indeed compact, fast-loading into memory and fast-loading of the page, but has some issues:
  
  Most importantly for the moment, it crashes occasionally. I haven’t pinpointed any specific [...]
• 05-29-2007 The Long Weekend So most of the weekend was spent simply sleeping. I had some strange (and not strange wonderful, mind you, but strange eerie, strange unwanted, strange…. dare I say? E-V-I-L) virus or what-have-you that had me nigh incapacitated for 3 days. Symptoms were basically extreme exhaustion and weakness, as well as intense chest pressure and seeming [...]