Keeping busy
June 7th, 2006Even though I have 10 posts half completed I figured it was about time just to start writing something to post. Lately I’ve been finding myself fixing issues at work which myself and others have been pegging as issues for a long time. Some of which were didn’t get any attention until after the worst case scenario has already happened. *sigh*.
I’ve been redesigning the way that our online training functions for one of the divisions at the U. Unfortunately I don’t have the time to make sure everything is fully standards compliant (that’s a separate project entirely). I’ve just been charged with converting it from ASP to PHP and getting it live ASAP. While this leaves me the ability to fix some of the HTML/XHTML compliance issues as I come across them (I refuse to produce any code myself which isn’t XHTML Strict). I still wait till I can go back and fix the rest of this application.
Other than that I’ve been trying to find the time to play with Ruby a little more as I’m currently building a Web Services interface for another division. While my interface is working correctly it is actually my first Ruby app, and as such I’d really like to give some more time to learning the language. So I picked up the ‘Pick-Axe’ and have been slowly reading about it. I like what I’ve seen so far and I was actually thinking that it might be a good exercise to complete a raytracer in Ruby. If I find the time for that be certain I’ll post it up here.
That’s about it for now, I’m getting ready to attend some weddings this summer. I have a trip out to NYC again soon and then I’m just waiting for SIGGRAPH after that.
June 8th, 2006 at 9:30 am
Good to see you are still alive, sorry we haven’t been able to connect recently. I’ve sent you a few emails but haven’t heard back from you.
Ruby is cool, glad you are getting to play with it. As much as the zealots preach it’s absolute zen qualities, it is the first language I have ever seen where I look at the code and have absolutely no idea what is going on. Also, I was under the impression that Ruby was far too slow to do anything like a Ray Tracer, but I’d like to see you try =)
This is a really fun Interactive Ruby Tutorial you may be interested in: http://tryruby.hobix.com/
Hit me up this weekend, I close on my new place next Thursday, so I will be much closer to the cities.
June 8th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
Nice to hear that your alive as well. I’ll be out of town for a wedding this weekend, but if I get back early enough on Sunday I’ll give you a call.
Actually I was thinking it might be interesting to see just how slow it would perform a raytrace. I know it’s a bit clunky but it’s been kind of fun playing around with it so far. Somethings I like better than Python, but it’s lack of documentation is irritating.
Talk to you soon.. BTW. If you haven’t gotten your Flaming Lips tickets yet, you should.