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I am a computer programmer with a lot of experience. I am currently upgrading my skill set. Follow my journey learning Ruby-on-Rails, HTM5, iPhone and Android programming.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Educating Myself

The previous article shows the top programming job trends. Some of these trends I need to hop onto. I need to educate myself!

I am going to start by teaching myself Ruby-on-Rails. I've purchased an excellent book called "Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial" to help me learn Ruby-on-Rails. I'll outline in future articles what I am learning while I am learning it.


I am on page 30 so far. It is very easy to read.

To prepare myself for this leaning I've gotten a free Amazon Web Service server account. It is a 64-bit Linux server, totally mine, free for 1 year. It comes with Ruby and Rails already installed. And I have root access! If you want to learn and don't have a super-duper server I would suggest visiting aws.amazon.com and getting one. But don't get one of these free servers till you are ready! The "free" part ends in one year. But actually, after 1 year the cost is really minimal, you are charged by usage, not by a monthly fee. So if you are still using it only for development after a year, the monthly out-of-pocket should be minimal.

So now I am off on a learning quest! I'll be posting more soon.

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