Posts filed under 'Software'
I have to build a book trading site for school. I’ve heard a ton of good things about Ruby On Rails so I figured I’d give it a try. I’ve been very impressed so far. I’m using Aptana IDE, MySQL, and a lot of cmd windows. It’s great. It’s easy to use and I’ve built a lot of content in a very short period of time (and it will run on either windows or linux). Now that I am finally comfortable with basic Rails stuff I am going to dive into Ajax and SOAP in Rails. Should be pretty cool once it is done.
August 16th, 2007
I am working on getting the gallery spiffed up. It should be fairly functional soon (and hopefully bug-free). There isn’t a lot up there yet but I hope to have many of my 8000+ photos up there shortly. I am also planning on adding paging, printing (to shutterfly, ophoto, etc.), better thumbnails, and EXIF info. More to come…
May 20th, 2006
In order for business and science to really move forward, we need to find ways to get all smart people to learn how to code. Knowing how to write software should not be limited to just developers and engineers. We need people in niche areas to understand computing and be able to identify problems than can easily be solved with the proper application of software. This is one of the main reasons for my decision to leave my job as a software engineer (which I do really enjoy) to pursue a life of medicine. I feel that my background in software can be combined with a medical education and a love for serving others to make me a very unique physician. We need doctors capable of revolution not just evolution.
It is nice to see the software field finally recognizing this. At PDC this year, Don Box talked about this very thing. He said one of his goals as an architect at Microsoft is to make it easier for smart people (in other fields) to push computers to solve their problems.
Since there will always be code involved in programming (at least for a very long time), it seems the best way to make progress on training and understanding is by getting kids involved at a young age. There are some really great sites out there to learn about different languages. Since I am mostly a Msft developer, I am most familiar with easy ways to learn c#. There are a couple of great sites put out by Microsoft such as Coding4Fun and Video Game Development. By combining those sites with the free Express editions of Visual Studio, we get a very powerful, inexpensive learning opportunity for both ourselves and our children.
February 20th, 2006
I just moved the site over to WordPress. I was using Blogger.com but was getting tired of the formatting issues that I was having. Hopefully this will be an easier piece of software to use. Now I just need to find a good looking theme.
February 11th, 2006