A Weblog written, styled and hacked by Joel Moss
I bet you thought I’d never get any more reasons out did ya? Well, today, I’m going to tell you all about IRB and the Rails command line debugger, both of which I use religiously.
One of the great pleasures of using Ruby, apart from the previous three reasons, and of course the following five reasons, [...]
Well now then. My last post, or the comments in it, seemed to have stirred up a little hornets nest. I had my fair share of supporters and my fair share of thanks for my writings, but I also received a little criticism. I think I’ve covered most of those in the comments and also [...]
So Codaset is being written in Ruby on Rails and not CakePHP. A bold decision I think, but a decision backed up by years of sitting on the fence when it came to Ruby and Rails, but also a little controversial, since I have been working with PHP and Cake for a long time now. [...]
Just watched Ruby on Rails Commercial #6 from the guys at RailsEnvy today, and I gotta admit, it really does come very close to the truth.
A lot of the features in CakePHP have been influenced by those features already found in Rails, r simply copied from Rails. Of course I am not part of the [...]
Well this week, after months of “will I won’t I?”, and “shall I, should I?”, I finally sat down and began to write my first app with Ruby on Rails. And you know what? It was, and is fun!
Admitedly, I haven’t gotten very far, but I do now have a basic understanding of the Ruby [...]
My name is Joel Moss, a web developer and all round nice guy, living in Manchester, England. I am currently working full time for ShermansTravel.com, but I fill whatever spare time I have with lots of good and wholesome "stuff"! Like developing my own ideas; such as Tooum, contributing to the excellent CakePHP framework, and doing more work for ShermansTravel.
So this is my blog - my soap box! Here I attempt to share my likes, my dislikes, and my opinions. As well as providing some occasional respite from the daily crap we all endure. Enjoy ;)
Hey, if you want to reach me, i'm available via email:joel[at]developwithstyle[dot]com, and AIM:joelkmoss.