Little Black Hat

I first began exploring Ruby on Rails in 2007 at the urging of Tim Rosenblatt. He and I went out to a meeting of the Orlando Java Users Group to see a presentation about this new framework called Rails in a language called Ruby. At the time, I was very interested. However, after I got my position at Bonnier, I wasn’t able to spend the time fully learning RoR. That changed when I switched jobs to Orange Lake.

I’ve been coding in Ruby using Rails for the past four months for Orange Lake Resorts. I wanted to share some of my experiences developing Ruby software in hopes of enlightening people who are unaware of some of the aspects of Ruby on Rails I like best.
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Sorry for the recent downtime! Should be back up and good to go. Cool

I needed a dresser. The one I’ve had since I was a child is falling apart, and it’s just not big enough for both myself and my wife. It was time for a new one. After evaluating all the choice online, I ended up going with Ikea. Instead of ordering it online, I decided we’d trek out to the Ikea store instead. I wanted to have the Ikea Experience.

Suffice to say, it’s an interesting experience.
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