Introducing Dweebazoid

[Murdoch Websites]

Hi I'm Stephen,

Nice place you have here - I've only been a member for a few days but I've read some VERY interesting things that make me want to stick about.

That's it.

Steve

[Power Lunch Club]

Hello Stephen,

Thanks for posting up...and it's a great pleasure to meet you. Welcome to SBF.

Saw your useful post on the other thread, thanks for posting that...I am sure it will be useful to others who offer your types of services.

Gordon

[frockery]

Welcome to SBF, Stephen. Hope you enjoy your time here.

[Murdoch Websites]

Hi thanks everyone,

The recent activity on this board, and one or two others, has helped me out a lot.....

Better get back to it, I've got a few things to sort out now.

Cheers,
Steve

[alanbold]

Hi Stephen, welcome to SBF, love your site. How was the learning curve with ROR. I've been thinking of giving it a go recently as Im going to be working on a big user driven site that needs to be scalable, Ive been working with cms pltforms like drupal but they just wont cut it for what i need to do.
Regards
Alan

[TomB]

Hi Steve,

I realised I hadn't acutally welcomed you to the forum.

I've PM'd you some stuff I mentioned about contracts and terms and conditions, I'm happy to do all i can to help, since we are both in the same boat with regards to a certain company that shall not be named

Look forward to chatting more

T

[Murdoch Websites]

Originally Posted by alanbold

Hi Stephen, welcome to SBF, love your site. How was the learning curve with ROR. I've been thinking of giving it a go recently as Im going to be working on a big user driven site that needs to be scalable, Ive been working with cms pltforms like drupal but they just wont cut it for what i need to do.
Regards
Alan

Hi Alan, thanks for your kind comments.

Regarding Ruby on Rails, the learning curve is less if you understand certain terms like OOP and MVC. I went from having done Java at uni to Rails so I found it OK.

The following sites will teach you quite a lot of what you need to know - Railscasts - Free Ruby on Rails Screencasts (free screencasts - this guy knows what he's talking about)
Ten Recent Episodes of Ruby and Rails Screencasts (more free screencasts - a less informed producer but there's gold in there)
Professional Screencast Tutorials | PeepCode Screencasts for Ruby on Rails Developers (not free, but high qaulity, I'd recommend taking a look at the least - I paid $50 for 5 videos and it's probably the best money I have ever spent although he does go a bit fast for the beginner so wait a while before you peepcode)

Further resources, I used to be a member here: Learning @ Your Own Pace® - lynda.com and they also have an incredible selection of valuable videos - advice on almost everything from cold fusion to apache server.

If you want something that's supposedly easier to learn (and some say better than ruby on rails) then look at MERB (Merb | Looking for a hacker's framework?) it's built on Ruby (like rails) but is a bit prettier on the eye, if that's possible

The rails community seem quite keen on sharing all of their knowledge. Look at this Active Merchant for an example - its a massive compendium of all the methods and programming required to process credit cards online - preventer of head-to-desk banging.

Do you have any programming experience? There are books that make it easier depending on where you're coming from - for example, Java programmers might want to learn JRuby or Groovy on Grails).

Originally Posted by TomB

Hi Steve,

I realised I hadn't acutally welcomed you to the forum.

I've PM'd you some stuff I mentioned about contracts and terms and conditions, I'm happy to do all i can to help, since we are both in the same boat with regards to a certain company that shall not be named

Look forward to chatting more

T

Ha thanks Tom, you've been really helpful. I really loved the AOD image you sent me - great design and a shame what happened there - lots of good things going on. Thanks again for all the help, it will get me up and running.

Thanks everyone.
Steve