RubyGeek

I’m alive!

No, really I am.

I’ve spent the past 3 months (seems like 6 months) helping a startup company get rolling with rails in my limited spare time. It was an interesting experience but I’m glad my part in it is over. Talk about stress. I am not the sort of person who wants to run her own business, I’m content to work for someone else. I like to put in my 8-10 hours a day, and then be done.

On December 10th, I was riding home on the train and an email “Thank you for registering your mac!” .. huh?? I have wanted a mac for so long, but have been trying to be content with a dual boot windoze (for evdo) and linux (for real work). I ask my friend if he got me one — he always said he would if he could. No, he said he didn’t get me one. Ok, well since MrNick, my husband, hates macs - I thought surely he didn’t get it for me. Its gotta be spam! … I check all the urls in the email, they seem legit. I search on the sentences in the email to see if has been reported as a phishing or spam attack. No. Weird, if it is spam - its sure a cruel joke. I then remember to call MrNick and tell him I was running 20 mins late. I ask him …

“Hey, uhh… you didn’t buy a mac did you?”
“Whhaawhat gave you that idea?”
“umm well I got this email… thank you for registering your mac”
“umm yeah”
(me squealing) “what!?! you did!?!? awwwww”

His plan was, if I got home at the right time, he was going to be gone to his piano lesson and I would walk in and see this mac on the table playing X-Men (one of my favorite movies!) … but he had turned it on to make sure it worked and had registered it with my email … hence the email to me.. so… it wasn’t quite like he expected, but I was really surprised and really happy.

I love doing ruby on the mac. I got Textmate of course and am slowly learning the short cuts. I’ve been doing exclusively vi for the past 3 years, so its a bit of a switch. I can press cmd-r to run the tests… and I have autotest running in the background. I have a spiderman skin, so spidey tells me my test status. Its pretty fun.

As a break from coding, I’ve been playing World of Warcraft. Yep, it runs on the mac and only crashes once in awhile! MrNick plays, so its something we can do together. Its pretty fun. I used to play DnD online, but al you could do in that game is fight. I also played Ragnarok, which was sort of fun but there’s only so much you can do in that game. WOW seems to be the perfect game. I can party with Nick and do quests or on my own gather resources to make and sell stuff. Its all good.

Now that I am freed up from some of my obligations I am going to write more. I have 3 books waiting for a review to be written up! .. one on ActiveRecord, Perl, and PHP. Look for those in upcoming weeks.