Rails
I wanted to try out Ruby on Rails so I hacked together a simple web frontend for iTunes using AppleScript and Rails. Even though web development isn't exatly the most exciting thing to do, it was pretty fun. Ruby was a nice surprise, I think I might actually use it again for small hacks in the future. The downside of the whole adventure was that it's quite depressing to see how nicely everything works in OSX compared to Linux, being able to quickly hack together something like that and just have it work.
Boston
I'm going to the summit this year! It will be the first time overseas for me, hopefully I will be let in being one of those foreigners and all. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone :)
Comments
Yeah, Rails is loads of fun, though I would disagree with your thought "web development isn't exatly the most exciting thing to do." It's scary how seamless and simple everything is becoming. Soon it won't take any skill to make sweet web apps. Take that as a good or bad thing...
I'd also take issue with what you said about OS X being more seamless than Linux--there are places where that is true, but Rails development is definitely not one of them!
Posted by: Phil | September 26, 2005 11:35 PM