I’m back!  I just actually made code progress on something I’ve been meaning to do for a really, really long time!

I’m finally making some headway on my “take over the world” web app.  I think I’m going to stick with Ruby + ActiveRecord.  I was using Amirta2 for templating, but I was having trouble getting that to work so I switched to ERB for the time being.  I think I like the former more, because it’s more abstracted.  ActiveRecord is friggin sheer genius.  And just to remind you, I came up with that a long time before the haircutter show…  I have attempted to write a smart database class for perl before.  It was actually really helpful, but it can’t do the crazy cheese that activerecord does with relationships.  I even ported it to PHP so I could write in both languages. I’m not a big fan of rails.  I think with the right mentality, all you need is a good database class and a template engine.  Those aren’t worth doing yourself.  The rest - have fun with program design for goodness sakes!
I’m really, really psyched now.  I’m getting all excited about ajax again.  I just hope I can make enough headway framework wise so I can quickly bring in the new code for work and use that for my project on that end.  I might be hard to focus on both, we’ll see.   If I really get going, then there will be some ethical questions as well regarding code sharing , since I’ll have a similar project on the clock at LONI.  At least we’re not commercial!

I’m really liking ruby.  I didn’t think I could make it out of my stubbornness, but it’s just so fun to write.  It really is in the perl mentality - where you get creative in your statements.  It’s genius.

So basically all of that new music I talked of is finally sinking in.  It’s all like amazing after a few listens.  I’ve got Yellowcard on a loop right now, and had The Used on earlier.  Man, these guys are pretty talented.