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35:27 – I would post a description, but it would just be a conspiracy! Warning: heavy ironic and satirical undertones!

Recorded in Singapore. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.

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ASIDE: Within five minutes of this post going live I received a message from Vannesa Choi in Taiwan saying that I can filter out a lot of Rails related results by specifying eRuby specifically instead. I still get lots of Rails results, but certainly much less than before. Xie Xie :)

I've been learning Ruby for a while now and have started moving from Perl to it in recent months as my primary tool for solving most of my day to day problems (alas, just with computers, real life is the next step!). With all I've picked up I've now decided to use Ruby in web development and replace my PHP powered sites other people have coded over to an eRuby FastCGI powered site I code myself (I got part of the way through a similar project a few months back, but life got in the way again and stalled it!). What was the quote that Google put on it's Google Code adverts? "Computer Scientists don't adapt other people's code, they create their own!"

Anyway the problem I'm having with finding quality documentation online for Ruby web development is the exact opposite problem I had when I first learned about CGI using Perl back in 2004: there's too much of it! But in an ironic twist, just as the sailor stranded at sea in a lifeboat can't drink the water despite it being all around her, all the documentation I'm finding is all about Ruby on Rails! Even the O'Reilly book on Ruby proudly proclaims it to be the language that powers Rails!

Virtually every search I perform for Ruby development in books, online or even talking to people, whether it's for MySQL connectivity, FastCGI or sessions always brings up Ruby on Rails but not Ruby! I don't want the triple chocolate sundae with nuts and fudge, I want the wholesome Ruby goodness you can only get from eating the plain but smooth vanilla ice cream. From the tub. With a spoon. In my pajamas. That's a funny mental picture.

Now don't get me wrong, there are some good websites on Ruby web development such as Hiveminds in the UK, but I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm fed up with seeing what appears to be an excellent page detailing an aspect of Ruby web development only to discover that they're talking about Rails! Argh!

I guess one could ask why someone who wants to do web development in Ruby doesn't want to use Rails, and I could spend all day typing here explaining why, but Hiveminds puts it very eloquently:

One of the most troublesome of the Rails drawbacks for me and the reason that I decided to go with eRuby is the that Rails was taking up all my time with Rails problems and troubleshooting. I was learning a lot about using Rails but not much of the Ruby programming language. Someone suggested we go with CGI instead and while researching this we found eRuby.

eRuby is a much easier way of using, learning and getting the power of Ruby on to a website. With eRuby deployment is a easy as uploading your files to your web server. This is to say deploying an application or webpage is no harder in eRuby than it’s counterparts like PHP or ASP. I honestly believe that if Ruby popularity is going to increase that eRuby will be the reason. Unlike Rails eRuby has a very shallow learning curve and does not require a lot of effort by web hosting companies to set up.

Now just in case you've got the wrong idea, I personally don't have anything against Rails and have even used it myself for a few projects, but for most of what I do it's overkill and when I'm looking for just Ruby material it can get tedious when you get superfluous information. But I am weird right?

If there's any other way to celebrate Christmas, I certainly don't know about it ;-)

While Twitter has its latest scheduled downtime, I'll be posting my random 140 character quips about life and what I'm doing on this site instead. Walkley award material I can assure you!

21:50 SGT, 21:50 GMT

Twitter is back online. And so ends the first installment of the "Emergency Twitter offline postings" ^_^

20:51 SGT, 20:51 GMT

False alarm. Thought Twitter was back, and I was able to post on Snitter, but Twitter site is still down. 105

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Going to try and finish all my studies this week so I have Christmas and a few days after off. Not sure if I can do it! 119

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Just came back from dinner. Appears Twitter is still offline. Damn it, been offline nearly all day! 99

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Reading up on how to tie MySQL to Ruby in a way similar to how I did it with Perl back in 2005. Wow, long time ago! 115

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"Believing the world is 5000 years old and created in 5 days isn’t a moral issue. It’s just stupid!" – Bill Maher 113

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My mum just woke up, made her dinner. Her mouth still really hurts, this chemo is nasty stuff 93

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I used to set my air con to 24/75F, now I set it to 27/80F and it feels the same! Amazing what a bit of tuning can do! 118

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I like to have clean computer workspaces, I hate having lots of windows open. Tweeting on this blog is very inefficient in that respect! 136

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And to think I was going to figure out if I could import these posts into Twitter when it came back. Could you imagine?! 120

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Excellent quote I just read on Slashdot: “Correct spelling is the new 1337″75

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Aircon people have left. I turned the one in my room on and was nearly blown out the window! Makes HUGE difference! 115

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This really makes me appreciate how easy it is to use Twitter, and how much time I clearly waste on it! Look at all these! Curse you Felix! 139

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And I’m still worried about installing Last.fm on Leopard considering how it manages to screw up X11 so much 108

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Trying to clear out a backlog of emails that have accumulated 61

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Ah it’s all good. I restarted the VMware Fusion server and all is good again. Whew! 83

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What the hell? None of my VMware Fusion virtual machines are detecting my keyboard?! 84

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Somehow posting these entries on my blog just doesn’t feel the same, or as spontaneous 86

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Aircon servicepeoples just arrived to service our aircons. What a redundant sentence! 85

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Started Twitterring on my website while Twitter has scheduled maintenance… in the early afternoon! 100

I was in the city late yesterday afternoon and I had my camera with me so I thought I'd take a few quick photos. Problem was, no sooner had I got the camera out and set up the sky turned grey and within fifteen minutes it started pouring!

Best I could do under the circs ;).

The Square

Most of the area here is made up of pedestrian walk ways and parks, with two entrances to the Raffles Place MRT station.

Singapore Land Tower

Formally Shell House where my father used to work in 1997. I tried to get the reflection of the other tower all symmetrical but didn't quite work!

Republic Plaza

My personal favourite, I wonder how much the rent is? ;-)

OUB Centre

I had to sit in a really contorted and embarrassing position to get this photo right!

HSBC

And here's my attempt at being all "arty". I call it: "HSBC Urban Jungle". Sometimes I'm so creative with names I could just shoot myself in the face like Dick Cheney.

Suntec City, Esplanande

Unfortunately by the time I got around to photographing Suntec City and the Esplanade in the distance the rain had already started falling, so the picture is pretty crappy!

You can view the full gallery over at my Flickr page.

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Under the cover of religion there is no stupidy that can’t be advocated!

Christopher Hitchens