Progress Report 2
April 14th, 2006
I've made it through chapters 10 and 11 in the Pragmatic Programmer's Agile Web Development with Rails book. I'm starting on the Testing chapter which is the last chapter before the book begins going into in-depth Rails discussion.
I've also been reading more in the Programming Ruby book - kind of jumping around from topic to topic. Whatever interests me. I'm getting really jumpy to start on some sort of project.
So, I'm going to try to get started on a couple of things this weekend. First, I want to get typo up and running on my local dev box. I want to start getting an idea of how it all works.
In particular, I want to figure out the Amazon sidebar component. As you can see, it's not displaying books on RubyNoob. I'm pretty sure this is because I'm using Amazon's spiffy javascript doodad to display those info windows when you mouse over a book's URL. The script apparently modifies the link in such a way that the sidebar's code can no longer read it. I'm going to try to fix that. It may be an impossible task, but on the surface at least it sounds easy enough.
So, hopefully by Monday I'll be well into the meat of the Agile book and have a modified Amazon sidebar component. Whether I get it to work or not, I'll try to document my experiences here.
I've also been reading more in the Programming Ruby book - kind of jumping around from topic to topic. Whatever interests me. I'm getting really jumpy to start on some sort of project.
So, I'm going to try to get started on a couple of things this weekend. First, I want to get typo up and running on my local dev box. I want to start getting an idea of how it all works.
In particular, I want to figure out the Amazon sidebar component. As you can see, it's not displaying books on RubyNoob. I'm pretty sure this is because I'm using Amazon's spiffy javascript doodad to display those info windows when you mouse over a book's URL. The script apparently modifies the link in such a way that the sidebar's code can no longer read it. I'm going to try to fix that. It may be an impossible task, but on the surface at least it sounds easy enough.
So, hopefully by Monday I'll be well into the meat of the Agile book and have a modified Amazon sidebar component. Whether I get it to work or not, I'll try to document my experiences here.
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