At the suggestion of an old programming friend of mine, I’ve decided to teach myself Ruby and Ruby on Rails.

Ruby seemed like a good idea. Scripting languages have always been an important aspect of how I use computers, and the opportunity to select a single language that will work across multiple operating systems is very seductive.

I’m starting completely from scratch on this one, so I fully expect to encounter some interesting and challenging problems, which I intend to document in this blog.

I started this process a couple of months ago, so the first few entries in this will be an attempt to transcribe my development/learning diaries into this blog format.