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Riding the Rails

Dec 14

Posted by Mike in Development, Programming, Ruby on Rails | No Comments

I never deemed myself a programmer. I come from the design side but have taught myself html, css a bit of javascript and have dabbled with php.

railsMost recently I was introduced to Rails framework and the programming language of Ruby. While it seems like a fantastic way to develop ultimately it still comes down to having the right mindset for programming.

Yes, I think I will be able to write some Ruby on Rails applications (or at least decipher some of the many ones already out there), but no matter how simple the language you still need to fancy yourself someone who can map out things in structured chunks.

Even though I have a design background I never really thought of myself as a right side of the brain person. I am sort of middle of the road, but perhaps not far enough to the left to do any serious programming. We shall see.

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Ready to Roll

Dec 7

Posted by Mike in Design, Development, Inspiration, Personal, Wordpress | 11 Comments

I’m jumping back onto the wagon and hopefully getting my design and coding chops back in order. I will first need to upgrade my WordPress install and get a new place for the digs but not to fear that should be the easy part. I’ve at least got some inspiration to get designing on a new site for a band that we just started about a month ago.

Nothing special, just some over age guys with an excuse to play some songs and drink a few beers. Even so, it’s nice to be playing again. I also figured this would give me some creative inspiration to mess around with some site design again.

My thought is that I can at least keep a bit of a iterative progress check on how things are transpiring. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve got WordPress installed and set up in a new directory and done a complete reset of all the styles. Now it will be time to sketch out my ideas and then get to laying down some pixels. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I won’t procrastinate too much.

Quite the hiatus

Sep 13

Posted by Mike in Uncategorized | No Comments

Well, it’s been quite some time since I’ve posted here but I think I’ll be back in the game soon. I’ve got plenty of things that have been going on however there’s been little to no time to post. That said, I’ve been doing some development, design and have been maing progress on some new business ventures.

I’ll be back with some details soon.