Sat 30 Jan 2010
Its been a crazy December through January and I haven’t written much!
I’m glad the GWT posts helped some of you from the comments. I spent some time on figuring them out from the limited docs on google’s GWT site, mostly I think it helps to have complete examples since they dont make it real clear what file each snippit of code goes in. I’m glad the pain I went through to figure them out help some of you 
A few of you had problems but i haven’t gotten around to seeing what is wrong. I was using the trunk version of GWT, so if you are using 2.0 then you might have some differences.
I’ve been diving my head back into rails after spending a spell in perl/mason and GWT in some projects for work. I think other languages are neat but I really love ruby. So I’ve been re-watching some of my episodes of PeepCode.com and RailsCasts.com those guys are awesome. I love this stuff. Why else would I be spending my Saturday night with Ruby vs watching a movie or playing a game!
I’ve also been playing with android a bit, its pretty fun to see my app on a phone! Working on a TODO List app, which seems almost like “hello world” but it has a twist… more later when i have something to show.
Been working learning jQuery. I had seen it before, but saw class names mixed with programming and having a ugghhhh feeling. But.. I decided to give it a shot and dang! I would have given my right arm to have this 5 years ago when i was experimenting with ajax (though it wasn’t called that…) with setting the src of a script tag with a php url to load and save data. Anyways, its cool and neat. I think the name is horrible since you aren’t really quering anything… IMHO Maybe if I can think of a better one I can suggest it, but seems like it is here to stay since there are stay since there are 4 books already about it!
To help with reviewing ruby I have been working through Ruby Koans. Hats off to EdgeCase. I have already written them and thanked them! This goes along with my post How To Get Better At Programming where I wrote about how i was working at getting better at programming. It all comes down to practice! … I think when I finish the rubykoans exercises, i will revert and start going through them again. Almost like doing pushups every day (I push up to get more coffee at least 3x a day!).
Git … I did my first pull request on github, very cool how that works.
Have some ideas for some more substantial posts… coming soon
