In a routine
So we’ve been in our house for a little bit now, and we’re slowly getting into a routine. Work, gym, unpacking, cleaning, etc. It feels good to be done with all the crap involved with moving across state lines. Now if only I could help my sister Lisa and her family move back to Oklahoma from San Antonio, everything would be perfect.
Warning: The rest of this post will probably only make sense to two of the three people that read this blog. 
Work is going well. I’m in the middle of two projects, one a JavaServer Faces web application and the other a smaller web application using Ruby on Rails.
Working with JSF is very refreshing after dealing with Struts for so long. It is so much easier to create applications with JSF and I can wrap my mind around the components, backing beans, and other stuff far easier than I can Action classes and ActionForms. And Ruby on Rails is even easier than that, although I’m finding that it gets pretty difficult to work with if you want to do anything advanced and enterprisey.
I like Ruby on Rails enough to consider ditching Wordpress on this site for something homegrown. I think I’ll play around with that this weekend, so if things look a little wonky, that’s why.
June 20th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
Who’s your webhost? I mistakenly signed up with Dreamhost before I realized their MySQL databases are so overloaded with users that all their shared hosting machines crawl. Back to topic though, I’ve been screwing around with
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
a bit. Fun stuff but I’m too boring a person to think of any good ideas. My tinkering always stops with, “AWESOME, I could use that to…” Then I draw a blank, heh. I haven’t looked at Ruby yet but it seems to be all the rage. I’ve been looking at Python lately and was going to get a framework up (django) and start messing around in the next few weeks. The side benefit is Xbox Media Center scripting is in Python.
June 22nd, 2006 at 10:55 pm
I’m kind of my own webhost. I have an account with a place where I have a Virtual Private Server (i.e. my own linux installation via User Mode Linux). So I administer the box myself and host a few web sites on it. This way I have root access and can make all sorts of fun changes.
I’m running cPanel WHM for a control panel, but I think that soon I’ll be considering moving to a dedicated or co-located server with debian/ubuntu or gentoo.
Python seems like a neat language, but I haven’t seriously looked at it. Really between Java, Perl, and Ruby everything I could want to do personally is covered. I’ve heard good things about django, though.
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:24 am
Blah Blah Blah… Code Monkey want banana? HA! =) You know Im joking though. One of these days Ill pick up something though I doubt it will be anytime soon.
June 23rd, 2006 at 8:26 am
You’re quickly approaching true super nerd territory when you’re considering a co-lo, “just for fun.”