5 things to show life is returning to the Watson family version of normal:
1. The four of us watched a Sky movie together and the phone didn’t ring once.
2. I found myself singing whilst using the shaving mirror this morning.
3. Reshuffle gossip, what reshuffle gossip?
4. I’ve not read a word in a Sunday paper.
5. BRMB not Radio 4. Disney Cinematic not Marr.
And more importantly, I’ve just ordered: Learn to Program Using Ruby, by Chris Pine. Sure, it’s just a primer but the last time I coded, it was in Sinclair BASIC.
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I hope you are as successful with Ruby as you were with sinclair – you can still get a homehelp using it.!!!
Very glad to hear it, it must be such a relief.
Nonetheless, I haven’t thanked you yet for your service up until now, so thank you and well done.
Just being dad, singing, coding and abstinence from “news” on a Sunday are, in my experience, vital keys to a life well lived
Glad to see you are blogging again Tom.
Delighted to hear you are enjoying family time and keeping up with the singing.
As well as all the great things you are doing I hope you are also able to catch up on some sleep.
Good luck with Ruby.
Best wishes.
Ruby?! meh! Perl for the win!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Learning-Perl-Randal-Schwartz/dp/0596520107/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244490378&sr=8-1
Thanks for your appreciation of The Year Of Collaboration’s MP Tweets site.
I hope you do well at learning Ruby. If you need a hand I’m sure we’ll be able to help. Look foward to your first Rails app.
You may find typing:
puts ‘Thanks’
into:
http://tryruby.hobix.com
is a starter for 10. The site has a lot of other links which you may find useful.
Ian
http://twitter.com/oceanician
Good to see you back Tom.
Of course, I’m sure all techie readers would agree that you might want to skip ruby and go straight to python (ducks).
You can also reminisce with a Spectrum at http://www.zzspectrum.org/
That aside, do keep blogging on all and everything, especially opening government data (and systems?) and general World 2.0 stuff.
Ruby? How very slutty. I would suggest going, as has been said, for perl first. Then go on to Ruby which you will pick up really easily.
Got Agile Web Development with Rails sitting on my desk, looking forward to delving into Rails over the coming months.
Go for the Ruby. Everyone has their favorites and reasoning behind it. I come from many camps including Mac & PC. (My first was a TI 99/4A.)
Just sit down, begin, and enjoy. Then hop over to what will keep your interest. All the Best!
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