My quest to learn Ruby on Rails is still at full steam, when I am not swamped with work.  Along with the numerous books, I have been going through an online Ruby on Rails training course at buildingwebapps.com.

Just launched this site yesterday for a client. The site was redesigned and a shopping cart was added. i used osCommerce for the shopping cart with a couple of contributions.

I have been meaning to add recently completed projects to my site since last month. So here are a couple of custom WordPress websites I have recently completed for clients.

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My first attempt at learning Ruby on Rails has been thwarted by the latest release of Ruby on  Rails v2.1.  The book I was reading “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications” published by Sitepoint was written very well but outdated.  The version in the book is 1.2.3.   I was excited about learning to create my own Digg site.  I guess that is why Sitepoint was giving away free copies.  I looked into purchasing the updated version called Simply Rails 2, but after looking through the forums, this edition had some problems too.

I found a much better book called “Agile Web Development with Rails” third edition.  The first edition is among the best selling programming books in the world and won a Jolt award for best technical book.  The print version doesn’t some out until October 2008, but you can download a .pdf version now.  You will recieve updated .pdf versions as the book is revised.    I hope this book turns out to be as good as the reviews.

Not only are they funny, but they actually teach you Photoshop techniques.

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I finished my Web Design Portfolio, but I am still working on the Photography section.

I am testing out how posts look on my new WordPress Theme I designed. So, I adding another post about random things.

Starting to learn Ruby on Rails tonight, until ADD got the better of me and I created this blog, I was surfing some competitors web sites and saw their blog.

Ruby on Rails seems like it will be somewhat easy to figure out. I just need to find the time to learn new things, keep up with my website design work, spend time with the family and ride my bike. The book I am reading Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications seems to be very good. We’ll see how it goes.

My first post to my first blog. I finally got around to designing and coding a WordPress website. The site is widget ready. Making it widget ready was very important. I see so many WordPress themes out there that aren’t widget ready. Why make a Word Press website not widget ready? It took a while to figure out the theme anatomy, but not too difficult. There is a wealth of documentation on the WordPress website. I also followed the code in the default theme. Looking through good code really made it easier. The website isn’t completely customized yet, but I am happy with how it has turned out so far. I’m sure I’ll find things to tweak here and there.

That wasn’t so bad. Blogging could be fun. I didn’t think I had anything to write about. Now, I can think of lots of things to write about.