I’ve pretty much always been a systems programmer. These days most of what I see on programming blogs and the like are related to web development somehow, and it makes sense. From mobile to actual websites, this is how most things are shipped. People buying software to run on their desktop computers is, like, so 20th century.
I figured this was a gaping hole in my CV so I’ve been meaning to dip my toes in for quite a while now. I unexpectedly “sorta kinda” finished all the personal projects I wanted to work on and found myself girlfriend-less for the weekend and now I’ve gone through half the chapters of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book. It’s really well written, I recommend it. I’ve been fascinated by the journey.
There are a lot of moving parts in web development, it turns out. Even though I haven’t written a website from scratch, the sheer number of directories and hints the books drops about the work Rails does for you is amazing. I know what goes into talking to a database – it’s incredible how easy it all is.
As soon as I’m done with the tutorial, I just need to think up a cool personal project that a website would be appropriate for. Also, I might finally write enough Ruby code to be able to make an informed comparison with Python. I think I like Ruby better, but I just haven’t written enough code in it yet.
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