Blog Relaunch

I’m actually amazed at how many times I had the thought “I should blog that”.  I thought that anything I had to say worth hearing could be summed up in 140 characters (and many things not worth hearing, I do have 16k tweets and counting).

As any self-respecting geek would do though, I hosted my own blog. Which means that, just as a car mechanic rarely drives a new car, my blog was always in rough shape. I have learned a lot by doing it. It really is something every developer should do at some point.

Alas it was time to move on. I’m now using wordpress and letting someone else host it. I have plenty of control over the theme, and the things I like to futz with, while getting other goodies like a mobile theme.

Now I just need to come up with some content.

Learning Ruby Through Testing

Back in 2005, Mike Clark wrote a blog post about learning ruby through unit testing. Ever since then I have had this itch to formalize what he was trying to do. Well, Jim Weirich and I got together to work on a Ruby 101 for the last CodeMash conference and out of it came the Ruby Koans a self-paced introduction to Ruby.

It is hosted on Github a killer service for social code hosting. If you are not using git, do not fret. You can always click the download button and get the latest copy of the project. Creating an account is free, and would allow you to fork the project, solve all the koans, and see what others have done.

Enjoy, and we look forward to the feedback.