When you get on google maps to plan out your vacation and it tells you how long your trip will take you to get there, how does google figure that out? Pretty easily actually. It takes the speed limits of all the roads it finds, and measures the distance of those road segments, and with those two pieces of information it can calculate the amount of time it will take you to get there.
My wife loves to go on vacations. Actually that’s more of an understatement than anything else. The last vacation we went on we went to Orlando, FL and rented a house there while going to Disney World. It was a lot of fun. So what does vacationing have anything to do with project management? Well, I’ll tell you. I call myself a technical team lead. My day usually consists of guiding my team on their current project and coaching them on how to improve themselves. As a lead, one of the things I really care about is knowing how the project we’re working on is coming along. There are a lot of methodologies out there about how to do this, but I want to take a really high level, common sense, approach to this issue and then figure out how the approaches I use work.
RubyMine is a Jetbrains product for developing ruby applications. I use a lot of Jetbrains products, which is why I’m giving RubyMine a run through. I’m hoping it will be as good as their other products. Since I’m a .NET developer, I’m thinking it will help me bridge the gap between the typical environment I’m used to using (Visual Studio 2010) and RoR.
Next up on the list is installing Ruby on our Ubuntu instance.
Installing Ubuntu as a VM is vastly simpler (and faster) than installing any Windows distro.
As an aside, I’m using VMWare’s Workstation product, in case you’re wondering what VM software I use, but you could do this just as easily with other products.
I’ve been doing C# programming for some time now. I’ve been investigating Ruby and talking to coworkers about it, but have yet to really dive in and start learning the language and it’s web counterpart, Rails.
I recently came up with a fun concept that I wanted to try on the web and see how people liked it, and I thought it would be a great opportunity to try learning Ruby on Rails. This will be a series of blog posts on my trials as a primarily Windows C# developer working with this new language and new stack.
I recently had to go through this because my windows installation started telling me it was not genuine and I needed to activate it. This was completely false, being that the key I was using to activate the product was completely legit.
So if you find yourself in the same boat as me, and you are wondering what you should do, follow these steps.
