Back to Rails, Back to Portland
February 01, 2006 @ 04:02 PMGreetings! Two interesting developments to keep you informed on, and I’ve gotta get to work so this will be fast:
Portland
I used to make it down to Portland once a month or so… You all know how much I enjoy Portland! Well, I’ve finally managed to schedule a couple dates for making it back down…. My next Portland trips will be: March 13th-17th, and March 31st!
Of course, I’m getting married on March 11th, and we’ve decided to go to Portland for our honeymoon! I know that sounds a little strange, but it makes perfect sense for us! We’ve got several things planned already… I’ll update you more on our plans later.
March 31st: Seattle Mariners will be playing the San Diego Padres at PGE Park! Mariners! Portland! Can’t beat that! This trip is highly dependant on actually getting tickets to the game. :)
Ruby
Remember that project I was doing at work in Ruby? Well, I’m back at it! Turns out another deadline is forcing us to continue with the demo code instead of rewrite the project in "real" code, so I get to spend the next month or so in Ruby/Rails. The code I originally wrote for the demo was fairly bad, but I was under tight time contraints and it was just going to be thrown away. This time the deadline is a little more relaxed, so I’ve begun heavily refactoring the code (and in several cases, completely rewriting it) to be of a much better design. Also, this time around, testing is being heavily utilized.
Over all, I’m excited to get back into Ruby at my ‘day-job’.
Could it be..? Apathy?
Something very strange happened today. My Java IDE of choice, NetBeans, released a fairly significant release… and I didn’t really care. Don’t get me wrong, I downloaded it… but… I’m not experiencing the same enjoyment in Java-related things that I used it. Maybe, even though I’m only 5 months in to Ruby, just maybe I don’t feel like Java is my "primary language." It’s a little strange to me that I’m more interested in WEBrick and Rails than JBoss and EJB3. More interested in figuring out this "dynamic language stuff" than Java Generics. More interested in wxRuby than Swing/AWT.
It kind of freaks me out. Part of me wants to force myself back into Java-land, surround myself with Java technologies and projects…. but… I won’t. Because when it comes to Java, at the moment, I’m just too apathetic.
Imagine that.