Perception

As part of my preparation for my overseas attachment with Opzi, I’ll be spending some time trying to pick up Ruby on Rails, and I’m quite looking forward to it. I remember how exciting it was when I first started with PHP over two years ago, then subsequently being able to execute some of the ideas that I had. More importantly, it’s always fun to learn something new and useful.

Rails is an MVC framework, which thankfully I’ve had some experience with CodeIgniter before, so that will surely be helpful. Ruby on Rails is also an increasingly fashionable stack, so it’s a good thing that I’ll have an opportunity to work with it. There’s a couple of other areas I’ll be exploring this December as well, namely Heroku and Git, and I hope there’ll be time for me to get a feel of those. I’ll also be trying out a couple of interesting web services that I purchased off AppSumo if I have the chance.

One of the best ways to learn something is to experiment with it in a side project, and that’s what I’ll be doing come this holidays. As always.