March 2007 Archives

I have never really used Flash for anything. My attitudes and knowledge of it all stem from experiences gained around 2000. When I read Dan Webb's post about how he was going to start to learn more about the newer versions of Flash, I had a kind of smart-aleck response: Ya sure, if it runs under X Windows on Linux.

But Dan has a lot of comments on this post.

The comments point out that these things are never as black and white as that. Theres a lot more to this subject that I don't know about and his commenters provided even more links to read. They definitely add to the value of Dan's content.

I regularly encourage new bloggers to encourage comments, and respond to comments. I encourage readers to make comments where they feel they can add to the discussion.

Although Why makes me think, sometimes I want a little more hand holding.

Rolling with Ruby on Rails provides all that, and by the end of the tutorials, I was thinking up reasons to write RoR applications.

If you're not comfortable with MySQL administration, you may want to work through the revised version: RwRoRR. by Bill Walton and Curt Hibbs. Some of the GUI MySQL software described in the original version is no longer available so I had to wing that part. The new version uses the MySQL console and a structure file to create the tables for the excersizes.

Not counting installing Ruby and MySQL, it took about 2 hours to get through the original tutorial. I should think the new version would go much faster. This is highly recommended for any programmer who wants to see a demonstration of RoR's potential.