Laboratory

A little corner of projects and odds and ends that I am working on. Essentially derivative works that fall out of other projects.

CakePHP

So after attempting to launch 4 individual RoR based websites I have found a very disconcerting trend. Ruby is slow running, more so than I consider acceptable. As such I am going back to one of the web tech's that have been around for a while PHP, but with a fresh new face: CakePHP. All of the benefits of RoR without the slow response times.

Ruby on Rails

So after a long and research intensive search I have decided upon using the new Ruby on Rails web framework to run most of my new projects. The decision comes from ruby's amazing flexibilty, object oriented nature, and the quickness that is provided by RoR's framework.

Personalizing Vim

With all of the buzz surrounding Ruby on Rails one project that has consistenly come up as a great value add has been textmate. This product is loaded by default with all sorts of shortcut macros that make RoR development so much faster. With a language as terse as Ruby anything that reduces key strokes is close to heavenly as you can get. One thing I noticed as I was evaluating this product was my yearning for vim style commands. So I have instead decided to make vim act more textmate-ish there by increasing loc but remaining cross-os compatible.