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Few new things

First and foremost, I'm writing this post on a Mac Mini.  I've been a fan since my roommate in college got a computer from his dad and it had this thing in it that he paid an extra 150$ for.  "Dude, it's too expensive and no one's going to produce stuff for it"

Well, it was a CD-rom, and he's never let me live it down.  This was 93.  It's 15 years later and I've had a few Macs here and there, but this one's probably the slickest.  Granted, it's a much better OS and the graphics and hardware have come a long way, but after downloading a VPN client to connect to my work network and installing a few programs, I'm running perfectly.

Leads me to my next new thing - Ruby on Rails.  Yeah, it's a buzzword language, and I'm jumping on the bandwagon, but I've been looking for a lightweight alternative to the C# generator I've been using.  Truthfully, the way RoR is structured, it'll really force me to learn more about the language in order to do things, but from what I've seen so far, there's a lot more I can do with RoR, and I won't code myself into as many corners thank god.

Is it going to solve all my problems and do everything for me?  No.  But I'd like to become a little uncoupled from Microsoft, and this is a decent step in that direction.  If anyone wants to see stuff built in RoR, check out Basecamp.  The guy who wrote the Rails stuff, wrote Basecamp in Ruby and decided that a lot of the code could be reused, so he created Ruby on Rails.

Keep an eye out, I'm going to start creating small apps because my hosting company will host them for me, so I'll be able to show you what I've learned.  "Hello world" should be coming soon