what_i_am.upto(2010)

It’s a bit belated for sure, but I was stuck at my girlfriend’s family in southern Germany and in the holidays, so there was no time (or reason) to get in front of a computer… A happy new year to all of you. Of course, the title of this blog had to be updated accordingly to 2010. I’ll try and keep more posts pouring in this year!

Just a quick update since I am really busy learning for my exams: I added a RSS widget to the sidebar, featuring the postings I marked as “shared” in Google Reader.

Google Reader is really great for keeping up with the latest news and sharing them with others. The most stuff I mark as shared is Rails-related stuff anyway, so I thought it’d be a good idea to just add the feed here as well

Update: Turns out the Wordpress RSS Widget is not compatible with the Google Reader Shared Items Atom feed, mangling the urls and titles while processing. I found out how to fix that using Feedburner though, so now everything should work.

The plan is to track stuff I stumbled upon on the net, especially interesting blog posts on everything Ruby, Rails and Linux (with a major focus on Ubuntu since this is the distro I am using). Additionally, I might also post some code-snippets I found useful, reviews of books I read and, last but not least, this shall be the final instance to force me into publishing the plethora of tools and apps I developed for my own needs into open source (on github, of course).

Oh and btw, though this is a blog focusing on Ruby and Rails, I am using Wordpress since it gets the job done just perfectly, and while getting the job done more easily has been the reason for most Ruby enthusiasts to switch over from PHP/Java/whatever, in my opinion the choice of the right tools should also imply PHP-productions…

Anyway, I am sending a warm welcome to all you folks out there, I hope that you will enjoy the stuff that will appear here soon!