A Fresh Cup
Last night, thanks to Twitter, I got to renew a acquaintance with Mike Gunderloy (I was a big fan of his books Coder To Developer and Developer To Designer). I used to follow his Daily Grind blog as it was widely regarded as the source for Microsoft Windows related development news, but as my interest in the topic waned I dropped it from my regular reading.
Fast forward to yesterday when Mike added me as a friend in Twitter, I discovered his new (to me) site A Fresh Cup which both charts his transition to Ruby on Rails (and an Apple platform) and serves as a Rails version of the Daily Grind.
Mike’s tale is very interesting to me, especially having made the transition myself (albeit to Python, but I went via Rails and intend to revisit it soon), and I think it might inspire some others too. For obvious reasons I’d like to have seen Mike move to Ubuntu (or any Linux distribution for that matter) but, as I was discussing with Josette (from O’Reilly) and Tony (whilst convincing him to get a Rails book) at the weekend, Rails and Macs still seem to go hand-in-hand so Mike’s choice was a natural one.
Oh, and Mike is using the same platform for his new site as I use here – Mephisto.
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11 Jul 2007 9:11 am
Actually I’ve got several Ubuntu boxes running as well - I’m just not finding it to be the right OS to handle my day-to-day primary needs. But I’m not purely Mac by any means. As far as Rails goes, I’m developing on Mac, deploying to Debian or Ubuntu.