Ruby On Rails

I’ve been looking at Ruby On Rails. I’ve got an Eclipse environment set up to allow me to develop Ruby On Rails applications. I’ve got MySQL sorted out and the plugin for MySQL added to Eclipse too.

I’ve been a big Eclipse fan for a while now and I still get impressed by just how slick it is.

Ruby On Rails has the same slick, all the bases covered, kind of feel to it too. I’ve seen the video and followed the tutorials – it really is easy to build web applications quickly. Having said that the biggest headache is getting the thing set up and installed – particularly on a PC under Windows.

Anyway I’ve got a little development project on the go with Ruby on Rails now so watch this space for further details.

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Just not convinced

Well I got to the end of the book and my overwhelming feeling is that it’s far to thick! It does cover all the bases but I don’t really feel I’ve gained a lot from the experience.

It was interesting enough to hear about how things got done at Microsoft but none of the stories were particularly entertaining and although they were helpful in supporting points being made, the points being made were nothing new.

I imagine that if I had read this book 15 years ago I would have learned a lot, but then again I’m not sure you can shortcut the project management journey by reading a book.

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