Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.
Went to talk about Ruby and Ruby on Rails last Tuesday at the mini-DevCon at University of Perpetual Help System – DALTA. That’s the 4th public talk for this year (4.5th if you count the RailsFTW plugging last month).
No “transcript” here, though. Just imagine me giving the presentation in front of college students right after I make a class roster app in front of them in under 5 minutes, installation to demo. And yeah, Microsoft is the sponsor I was referring to in the talk.
I hate design work.
Wait, that’s how I started my last blog post. =/
Anyway, I just came to post that I spent the past 10 hours building the mini-site for RailsFTW. There you could download the latest version of RailsFTW (v0.3) which contains the recently released Rails 3.0.3.
That site also contains lists of recommended links and downloads for people who want to use Ruby and Rails in Windows. If you have some suggestions, feel free to send them over to me.
I don’t like design work.
Whether I like it or not, I still have to do it since it’s part being a web developer. Fortunately, I get to learn a couple of tricks once in a while to make life a bit more interesting.
One of those is how to turn a boring link into a “Web 2.0” button:
Half a decade ago, you’d have to use an image for this effect. Thanks to the CSS3 support in modern browsers, you can implement this using only CSS. Here’s how you do it.
It’s been over a year and a half since I left my previous full-time job and I still don’t have a new one.
It’s not that I don’t have the skills needed to be employed; it’s actually the opposite: even though I’m not actively looking for a job, people still come to me asking if I could work for them. My part time teaching and Rails “consultancy” gigs fall under this (i.e. I never “applied” for them formally), and I’m getting emails requesting for interviews from local companies once in a while.
The reason I’m not taking any full-time job offers is different:
It’s been over a year and a half since I left my previous full-time job and I still haven’t fully recovered from burnout. I’m not confident that I’d be able to do software development “grunt-work” at peak performance for more than a few weeks on end.
After a year’s hiatus, I guess it’s safe to say that I’ve suffered permanent damage from my burnout.
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Looking back, the main turning point of my career was on January 2006.
With mysql2 now working on Windows here’s a small update to my hacked together Rails on Windows installer. I also took the opportunity to update the Rails to 3.0.1.
Also replaced the libmysql.dll with the one from MariaDB. That should probably be enough to keep the Oracle lawyers at bay…
Download Rails For (the) Windows v0.2
latest version is v0.4. grab it here