Well I hadn't played for a long time, but a friend Matt has been getting me back into it lately, we played a ton of games and tore some enemies up. Starcraft is a great game that is still what I like to call a larger more complex game of chess. Anyways, I have loved going back and playing some games.
I also built my first example app using the rails framework, which is for the ruby language. Ruby is definately cool, and ruby on rails was really pretty impressive, althought it seems alot of the features and functions of rails exist in many other languages, they just made everything about using the framework far simpler, you dont have to do all this manual self configuring, using XML config files that get so large and nasty that you have them all over the place, instead rails does all the basic configuration and file layout for you and only when your try to extend past the expected functionality do you have to worry about writing anything. It gives you the ability to build full blogs in minutes. Neato. I have just the little project I have always wanted to do that this seems well suited for and a good way to learn more about Ruby.
currently reading: Secret life of Howard Hughes
