Archive for October 13th, 2008

Why Ruby is My Favorite Language

I started programming seriously roughly ten years ago. I was working in the call center of an ISP, and there was a need for a reseller tracking application. I was attending the local community college at the time, and had been indoctrinated into the world of computer programming trhough what amounted to vocational training in [...]

the Ruby mysql gem error

Part of what I’m doing is actually learning Rails more than I knew it before. I’ve been working on random test apps, but now I’m trying to build something for real and I decided to start from scratch. Blew everything away, happily compiling/installing on my Mac and then I run into issues.
Basically, I got this [...]