3 chapters of the pickaxe
July 11, 2006I’ve been reading the Pickaxe book for the last few evenings. Just a chapter a night, so far i’m liking a lot of what I’m seeing in ruby. The syntactical shortcuts, and sugar, is really nice. I also like irb it reminds me of working in clisp. I am looking forward to rolling up my sleeves and spending some time with it.
Using ruby/rails on simply alerts will require me to recode some of the stuff i’ve already completed, i’m hopeful that it won’t be for naught. Ruby/rails is supposed to excel at the things that I need it to do on this project.
If ruby/rails ends up being the toolset it is reputed to be, I will probably resurrect the labor logic project and finish it up using ruby. I’d really like to have another coder on this project, working on it with an artist never worked out for me, but I think with another developer we could bang it out pretty quickly.
I’ve gone back and forth on this product a lot, but i’m starting to believe that google’s recent efforts will offer a lot of credibility to the approach i have taken on this. I have been convinced that clients would be comfortable with their data being hosted by the application developer if it meant that backups were performed, new features/bug fixes appeared without painful upgrade cycles etc. Google and their ever growing cadre of web-based applications is making this an easier and easier sell.
