Jarryd Crawford

So I finally decided to stop bumbling around on websites and tutorials and buy a Ruby book. There was vast amount of books on the topic, some 1.8.x and now for 1.9.x so I didn’t really know which one to start with. That was until I went on the Freenode IRC #ruby and #rails channels and talked to some kind folk over there.

It seemed to be the best choice to learn Ruby then get in to Rails from there to get a better understand of how Rails works, and to get me start I was pointed in to the direction of David A. Black’s book “The Well-Grounded Rubyist” for Ruby 1.9.1.

Ruby 1.9.2 has been out for a while now but the general concensus was that this book, even though on 1.9.1, would be a great leap forward in understanding Ruby. I’m still waiting for the book to be shipped to me from The Book Depository (omg no shipping cost) which I was kindly directed to via Booko. So when I do eventually get it in my hands then I’ll post regular updates on my experiences with the book and hopefully someone else out there can get something out of it as much as I hopefully will.

I’m going to be starting with a project that involves my future wedding next August, doing like a check-in system for RSVPs, information and that sort of jazz. A good starting point I think :)

I’ve decided that for my 1000th tweet (not that many tweets, I know) that I’ll finally do my online portfolio. I’ve attempted it many, many, many times but always keep putting it off. I would consider myself having a lot more design experience than I did when I first started building my portfolio 2 years ago so hopefully I can make something special and captivating.

So at 960 tweets as of today there’s only 40 to go, better keep tabs on that and get cracking.