I’ve been busy working, both for my job and to finish learning what I need for Ruby on Rails. I’ve been spending some time with Ruby on Rails again, now that the books have mostly caught up to the version 2 and 2.2 stuff, it’s making a lot more sense. I do find it a little funny that as soon as the books come out for 2.0 and 2.2, they drop 2.3 on the community. I haven’t looked at it much, but hopefully it...

For anyone out there that is interested and unaware, there is a new version of Wordpress out, 2.7. I just upgraded this site to use it, painless as always, andso far the new version is good. The admin interface has been overhauled and it is very easy to use. They added a lot of panels that you can show/hide and all kinds of flash. Don’t let it fool you it’s not just adding some sexiness to the platform for the sake of doing so,...

It’s been a while since I have done an update, and happily there is a reason. It is not just laziness as is generally the cause. I spent a few weeks working on the new theme, made some great headway, then I hit some roadblocks. Those roadblocks caused me to go back to my original idea for this tie, and the result was a new book, Ruby on Rails for Dummies. Apparently I am a dummy, and this book seems to be what I am looking for. It...

It’s October again, I am sure everyone has noticed that by now. The Agile Development book has been tossed back a couple months thuis dashing my hopes of startign fresh with Rails 2.0, well 2.1 really. So I have given up on the new book for now, and I’ll be going the long road. I am working on the second edition book now. This is written for an older version of RoR, so I’ll learn the old system and then learn the new on my...