Connecting People

The best way WEB 2.0 was described till now.

WEB 2.0 is about Connecting People.

I’m still shaking with this video.

Written by j.pereira on February 7th, 2007 with 4 comments.
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Web development with Ruby on Rails? Here I go

Yesterday I found myself learning a new programming language. At the same time found my self learning a new framework for building MVC based Web applications.

It was some quite time ago I didn’t learn a new programming language or framework the way I’m learning this one. The last I can remember it was J2EE. Before that it was Java. The others, which I also know a bit, were learned in the hard way, by experimenting, such as C++, C#, PHP or Javascript. Now, with my twenty eight years, I’m really excited by learning this language and framework. Just for fun. I’m getting anxious the put my hands on a real world application, now for Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is in the mouth of the world by now, so why don’t I have a shot also? I love programming, thought in couple last years I been set aside, to do some bureaucratic work and other stuff. Programming is the way I see thing born from my own hands, it’s like having a little baby (not that way)

Anyway, I’m religious reading this book, and so far so good, the book is written as the authors are speaking to me directly, the way I like it. Ruby? A script language that do all the magic for you. The best way to describe it is:

Try it and surrender yourself.

Rails? Convention over configuration. And of course DRY. This is a beauty thing of Ruby on Rails. You can do an entire Web application without a line of configuration. Really, now I think: f***k all those configurations, and mappings files for Hibernate and J2EE done in XML. You in Ruby on Rails write less lines of code than lines of XML configurations when in a common J2EE application.

Going for next chapter… bye.

Written by j.pereira on February 3rd, 2007 with 4 comments.
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