So, I’ve been taking dual paths lately: SLOWLY reading a Java certification book during the day, and reading the Head First Rails book in the evening.  I’m going very slowly through the Java book because it’s what I read while my incredibly slow computer at work freezes up while auto-saving documents, or while it freezes up because a new email popped up, or while it freezes up because I moved the mouse too quickly.  <off_topic_rant>Can I just say that Vista is the devil?  It’s been said a brazillion times, but I’ll say it again.  I’m sure on a fancy new machine it’s sleek as an otter, but it has no business on a machine with 1GB RAM.  I mean, this machine still has a FLOPPY DRIVE.  Can you even still buy floppies?</off_topic_rant>

On the other hand, the RoR book has been a lot of fun! I’m a little perplexed by the approach, because they’re not too concerned with the Ruby part. And they demonstrate that you don’t need to know that much Ruby to get started.  But it just feels weird.  It’s going too fast!  I haven’t crawled yet, and they’re telling me to enter a 5k race.  But I know that’s just old-timey whining.  Back in my day, we learned to program from the beginning, with a Hello World! statement. And we liked it! We liked it just fine!

So, I’m plowing through it — scaffolding CRUD in the blink of an eye — and learning to enjoy the ride.

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