Johnny Hall's Travels and Travails

I promised myself a while ago that I'd start learning RoR, to keep myself interested in web development.  It's taken me a while but I've finally taken the first steps.

I had a choice - either learn .NET 2.0 (I may still do this) or go in a new direction.  I decided that .NET, much as I like it, isn't where all the action is, so after a bit of research, I decided to become a Rails developer.

It's a scary new world - Rails requires quite a bit of work to get up and running on Windows (most of the toolset are oriented towards OSX and *nix).  I'm getting there, though.

I've now got my new laptop (more later) setup with most everything I (think) I need and I've invested in some shared hosting space with WebFaction.

I've got a few projects on the go, including some social networking stuff and my own websites (currently on Wordpress and .NET).  Hopefully, I'll be moving this blog to Mephisto soon, once I work out how to migrate the database (I'm having some trouble with MySql at the moment).