I have had the goal of “learn ruby on rails” on my 43 things list for a very long time now. In last two years or so I would start learning it but only to abandon it midway because of some other project or a newer version release and making my current learning pointless. But now I have decided to get over with this long standing goal of mine.
After some consideration I decided to spent 24$ and to buy an electronic version of Agile Development with Rails 3rd edition. I could have just looked for a pirated version of the ebook, but I decided that these guys deserve to be paid (so now every time I read the book, I don’t feel dirty)
I already had rails 2.3 and netbeans 6.5 with rails support on my system, so I just started to wade through the pages of the book and have made considerable headway (and I plan to get finished with it over this weekend).
Since I was in a hacking mood, I decided to get my self a new TFT screen to get a dual scree view with my laptop. I have experienced that I am much more productive when I have more screen real estate. It lets me have an open view of more windows and I can multi task easily (irc, documentation and coding). The fun part though is that I got this LG Flatron M227WD for almost half the price and brand new (the piece was on display on a local Siba store, while not turned on they hod lost it’s box and was a bit dusty making it half price). I even got in a 3 year insurance for free.
Now it’s time to put my acquisitions to work 
