Coding Alone
While Julie is off in the midwest visiting her family, I'm at home getting in some good coding time.
For the last month I've been building on my experience at the Rails Studio I attended in Portland to try to actually make something with this new technology. I'm finally hitting that point where all those hours of reading code and books about code and blogs about code and e-mails about code and IRC threads about code are actually paying off.
Last night I finally hit that point where I really got what I was doing. In proper Rails style, I spent a few hours really thinking about how the application should work. I drew some screens. I thought about how that would work and then drew some new and better screens. As I planned this out it began to dawn on me that not only could I draw this on paper but I actually knew how to make what I ended with.
So I got to coding. I wrote my database schema. I generated my scaffold. I wrote my views with a little quicky CSS to get me through. I looked it over in Firefox and for the first time every checked actual working code into my Subversion repository.
These days there are so many great inspirations out there. The design community is really on fire with development fever. For the last few years I've watched my ideas pop up from other people a few months after I think of something. This simple fact, that if you have a need someone else probably does to. Eventually somebody will make what you thought of. It won't be quite like what you would have made but what right do you have to complain? You just sat on a good idea instead of getting real and making it.
That's not going to be me anymore. I'm really pushing myself to get the skills I want to make my ideas happen and I have many of them. The first one is to start writing about my experience. I won't bore you here with the intricacies of how I'm doing what I'm doing. I'm creating a different, geekier blog for that purpose.
Never fear, this site will live up to it's name and continue to contain my almost daily observations in this hourly world. Mostly in the form of blog posts like this one about what's going on in my life and as an unending stream of links on the homepage and in the RSS feed.
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Who is this guy?
Julie's in Chi-town and isn't going to visit!?! That's it. I'm officially offended. Well, not really, but still. But the respect-o-graph is in deep a decline.
it was done for the same reason that I don't tell my parent's i'm in town when we're visiting YOU. there's gotta be a trade off, or I'll never get quality time with either camp. and i am quite fond a both a ya, so there you have it.