I hope _why is OK, I don't care if he wants to change his career but it would be nice if I were to know that nothing bad happened to him (Gone camping?) Give us a sign :)
On 24 August 2010 14:29, Dave Everitt <dever...@innotts.co.uk> wrote: > @Jenna: love the bit about 'children had no good way to make their own eBay > competitors' :-) > >>> 2. encourages experimentation with a low entry threshold, >> >> Did you find the extremely high level of fun interesting obscure ruby >> hacks to be offputting at first? I did. > > I'd been using Ruby and Perl for awhile, so I just found out how to make > things do what I wanted (then spent loads of time on the Markaby and CSS :-) > >>> 3. can also handle serious web development, >> >> Yup, so long as you don't let anyone know you've turned to the dark side. > > I have a spare soul for the dark side to purchase, but it still has firm > ethics. > >>> 4. doesn't take itself too seriously. >> >> Sometimes I wonder about that one, but the spirit of rebellion against >> serious business still seems strong. ^_^ > > I see it more as a spirit of experimentation and a deliberate (cartoon) > foxing around to one side of the boring everyday, but yes, _Why's surreal > humour got me into Ruby in the first place (although *none* of the 7 > students I introduced to the Poignant Guide got it at all, although one did > buy Chris Pine's book) and from there... > >>> The missing part in the tutorial for me is deployment. I have yet to >>> deploy anything public! But that's anther post. >> >> Hope this helps: http://camping.creativepony.com/Book:-Publishing-an-App >> :) > > Yes, it does - thanks, that's great! Now I've just got to set up our VPS > accordingly (and document the process as simply as possible)... I might also > have a go at adding details for Heroku (tried out Sinatra on it, worked > fine) for my 'Oracle of everyday things' Camping project. Unless someone > else writes it up first. > >> Anyone have experience with Heroku or jRuby + App Engine want to fill in >> the blanks? > > @Aria: 'edge-of-zany' - definitely. Or at least, off the beaten path. BTW > Nice vegan recipes! With Jenna, Seems Camping might be the framework of > choice for vegans (or, like me, totally-lactose-intolerant vegetarians)... > > Dave E. > > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
