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Idea: Site to rapidly learn programming languageApril 11, 2006
A common strategy for learning a new programming language is to buy a book. While this is a good starting point, it often leaves you with many unanswered questions. The moment you start coding, you're going to run into frustrating problems/questions that the book doesn't answer. That's where Google comes in, right? While Google is tremendously useful, it can still be time consuming to find what you're looking for. Google solves the problem decently, but not well. Read the rest of this articleRuby on Rails
March 29, 2006
I've been hearing more and more about Ruby on Rails these days. It won't be long before I download the language and start hacking, but you know what they say about time. That's something that I miss about university -- although had lots to do, there seemed to be more opportunities to procrastinate and explore :)
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Google Page Creator
March 21, 2006
It's fascinating to compare Google Page Creator with the idea of a wiki... they're quite similar in that they both allow web pages to be edited in vivo without having to first download them via FTP. I created a wiki at work that has been really useful for creating and editing documentation, but in the end having to use a bunch of confusing markup is never going to be a great solution for less technical people.
Something that I really like about Google Page Creator is that it limits what you can do. This may sound odd, but when you present a toolbar with 40 buttons to a new user, it's pretty overwhelming. And giving them 40 bells and whistles to play with means that they're very free to make a big mess. Constrain that to headings, subheadings, bulleted lists, and then package that all with a consistant font and colorings, and whala, you have some good looking content.
My page on Google Page Creator
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