I stumbled across a post the other day that stopped me down and made me think a bit.

I don't know that I necessarily follow the logic completely. I do prefer ruby at this point over anything else. I do really dislike programming in tcl and php. That was true before I picked up ruby, though.

I don't know that I would move to hack ruby. Actually, I do know. I wouldn't move. I would find a way to work from remote and travel as needed, or find another opportunity.

I do think that this is an exciting time. Exciting for me. Ruby pulled me from a deepening rut. I think the principles around ruby and rails are also making this an exciting time.

We challenge each other at work, and I challenge myself at home. I do this for fun, and I look for opportunities to do it more.

I like the in_place_edit plugin.

I needed it to work with validations in my model, though. It doesn't.

I also needed it to work with a select box. It doesn't.

So after some googling I found a few extensions that accommodate each of these shortcomings....

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We use CVS at work. We have an app that a handful of people are working on. Deployment by hand kind of sucks.

No problem, I say. Capistrano works with CVS now. Hooray!

It does "work" inasmuch as it does not barf when you run cap. It doesn't so much actually work, though. For me. The CVS command that it generates is crazy honked. Maybe my CVS is bad -- it's not you Capistrano, it's me.

I never found any documentation on what variables were available for the setting either. I did look at the source code of Capistrano, though.

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I have been working in ruby and in rails for a few months now. I came back to my Large Multinational Corporation recharged with a new zest for life. Flowers smell better. The sky is bluer. My children suddenly started behaving.

Maybe not all of those things, but I do enjoy my job again.

We recently took out a Basecamp subscription to manage the handful of projects that have become collaborative projects. This is also very exciting because we're finally doing things that we've been talking about doing for years.

We're making decisions together, and the office is more fun in general. At least this is the case on the technology side of the office. Dealing with the customers is still dealing with the customers - if you know what I mean.

Now on to the point of this entry....

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