Setting up new dev laptop

My wonderful wife got me a new laptop for my birthday that I can use for my Linux Ruby dev environment.

Short on study time this week as I have been removing Windows from the laptop and installing Linux on it. The biggest problem was getting the WiFi working on it, but now think I am set.

This morning as an experiment I have installed Eclipse on the laptop with the Ruby plugins, still need to figure out how to add the debugger for Ruby though. I know most people just use a text editor, but I remember when I was learning Visual Basic years ago, I learned the most when I was stepping through other peoples code. Hopefully I can find a way to replicate that with Ruby.

I also recently got the Book of Ruby and I am working my way through it. I really like the author, seems to set an easy, engaging, and understandable tone from what I have read so far.

New Years Day

Well I missed studying for three days since I got myself and the family sick because I was run down from all the hours at work. Everyone is on the mend today.

Watched a tutorial on Udemy.com this morning "Create and Deploy a Web App in 3 Hours". Way over my head for my current knowledge, but it did help me see how things tie together and some exposure for working with different gems. The course showed the development of a micro blog app using Facebook for authentication and then deploying it on Heroku.

If anyone is interested Udemy is running a 70% off special on their courses for the next six days. I picked up a couple of other rails tutorials while they were on sale.