Love those Pragmatic guys I've fallen completely in love with The Pragmatic Programmers. Well, not literally in love with them. But I've really turned into a complete fan of their work in very little time. Obviously, my first foray with their work was the first edition of their
Poor Computer Science I just came across this article, which speaks about the death of Computer Science as we know it. If you're one of the few that have actually read my information, you'll know I have a degree in Computer Science, so this obviously caught my
Standards matter to me When I started to work on this site, I wanted this site to completely follow the web standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium. The real reason for doing this was personal, as I want to adopt the philosophy of "If you're
How did I live without migrations? Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I really want to learn Ruby, so I can then dive into Ruby on Rails. Well, I decided to start moving along towards Rails, as I have a more clearer understanding of the Ruby language, its syntax
Don't take the easy way out I remember when I first started using Linux back in the day - "back in the day" referring to about the year 2000 - it was a total pain to work with. From not-so-great hardware detection, to installation and partitioning pains, to
Ruby makes me want to rock out During these past few weeks, I've been making a conscious effort to learn a couple of new programming languages, more specifically Ruby. As many people on the Internet, I was introduced to the beauty of the Ruby language when Ruby on Rails started to
Welcome! This will be the first of hopefully many entries to this blog. I've tried doing this blog thing many times before, but never followed through on it. Mostly it was because I wrote about inane stuff, like funny videos I had seen in YouTube,