Code For Web

It has been a busy 2009 so far. I haven’t even had a chance to breathe or really get any sleep at all. But that’s a good thing with this economy being down.

Overall we have ventured into the world of Rails and Ruby. Which so far has been rewarding since it has brought back some fire to my passion for web development. Yes, you may have heard this story again and again, but its just what really happened. I find Rails development to be a fresh breath of air and it definalty gives me some ideas for ASP.NET (MVC or not) development.

A few things that Rails really makes enjoyable is that is follows the MVC pattern, and really seperates the items of concerns. ASP.NET team is currently implementing a similar framework and has “borrowed” a lot of the ideas from Rails and a few other frameworks.

One thing I like about Ruby on Rails development is that I am not tied to a particular operating system. I am able to use MS Windows, Mac OSX or a flavor of Linux. Since this is an open source framework and technology, this allows myself the flexibility and freedom to choose. Something we do not really see from the MS crowd.

Well, I better get back to work, just wanted to post some “blah!”

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But, I did…

What did I do, well I sold all of my computers (Dell) in order to change over to Apple hardware. Why you might ask? Am I crazy, one for being an MS developer and selling my MS based computers? Naw, just crazy and just forward thinking. While MS technologies have been my bread and butter for several years now, I just needed a fresh environment and not Vista (been there did that).

Here are a few reason:

1. I like Apple OSX

2. VMware Fusion is absolutely amazing, and I can virtualize Windows XP or Vista flawlessly.

3. Open Source (Ruby, Python & others). I have always been interested in various open source technologies so why not.

4. Linux/Unix/MacOS connection. Yes I love the command prompt. I do not need a GUI to do everything for me. Click Click Click done. Typing is a must, must know what is “really” going on.

VMware Fusion

What an amazing application. VMware out did themselves with this product. Truely an amazing virtualization product for the MAC. I currently run Windows XP, with Visual Studio, SQL Server and the whole other bunch of tools that I require for MS ASP.NET development. I choose XP since the memory requirements are lower, but I am finding that I may soon have to change to Vista/Win2K8 in order to use a lot of the upcoming and new technologies that MS is releasing such as Azure Services.

Open Source

As a developer, I am constantly looking at new technologies and existing ones to new methods or ideas on how to solve a problem. One problem I find with MS is how narrow minded many of the developers are, they only know MS methods and processes and never have looked outside that realm. Most say, “MS is my paycheck, why other looking at other ways”. Basically a closed minded developer, somebody I would never hire.

Damn good looking computer

Yes, the MAC is just a great looking computer, with many great “working” accessories. Something Windows-based machines haven’t accomplished yet.

I think if Microsoft did the same exact thing that Apple, producing their own hardware, the number of issues with Vista would have been reduced 10 fold.

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