The Sherpa Project

I’ve played around a bit with Ruby and Rails over the past couple of years, but I haven’t done any significant programming in either. After attending CodeMash and sitting in on a few great sessions around both Ruby and Rails, I decided to start using Ruby as my primary scripting language and I made a commitment to play around some more with Rails.

The best resource that I’ve had had in both of these situations are each respective cookbook from O’Reilly. I’ve always known enough to hack around, but it’s been wonderful just skimming the books and getting a grasp on the capabilities and common tasks for each one.

I’ve found out a lot about how to effectively use Ruby and I’ve found many capabilities that I didn’t think that were possible (at least easily) with Rails.

These books are both great resources, superbly written, and deserve a place on your bookshelf.

I’ve been having a ton of issues with iTunes on Vista. Apparently, there is a new version of iTunes that will be released in the next couple of weeks. To see a list of some of the issues, you can view the iTunes and Windows Vista article on the Apple website.

I’ve been using Newshutch for a couple of months now. This is probably the longest time that I’ve ever used a single feed reader and I have to say that I’m loving it. The shortcut keys, the simplicity, and the fact that it doesn’t overwhelm me with a large number of unread feeds at first glance makes it a pleasure to use.

If you haven’t checked it out, it’s worth the time to explore.