Some new stuff going on here
So as you can see I've finally began to start making some small adjustments to this website. The small things are finally a new AJAX comment box area which stop page refreshes, also are some html tags are allowed.
There is a small summary of each blog post on the very front page and I've decided to extend it a little further so that everyone can see the latest stuff that I am doing on last.fm, del.icio.us and flickr to name a few. I'll also be working on a tag cloud as well as making the blog more AJAXy in general over the forthcoming months.
So I am working for a company called Arvato Finance as a Senior Business Analyst, and much of the stuff I do is designing internal system applications on Ruby/J2EE/Rails/PHP/VB/J2EE. It's a bit messy with all of these different frameworks at the moment but we will be merging most of the internal web applications into Ruby on Rails so that will be interesting for a time. The core business applications are of course not written in Rails, it is viewed like the plague, something the core team wishes to stay away from. MySQL it should be known, for a core application, is viewed as a dirty word where Oracle apparently reigns supreme. Hopefully my time here can change such perceptions of Open-Source code and products.
I've been developing with Ruby for the past three year and rails somewhat for the past two years now and I am still very much in love with the language as when I first saw it. It is to this effect why much of my own code written as a hobby is primarily written in Ruby. Having seen the Chinese mass produce J2EE code by throwing as many bodies at the problem I saw that for a one man team J2EE really doesn't suit me and my methods of fast prototyping and in this regards rails suits me perfectly.
Anyhow, at the moment I am an extremely busy guy, deadlines due and all that jazz. If ya like what I am doing to the site over the coming weeks lemme know and leave a comment. If of course you have any suggestions just let me know and I'll think about it further... :)
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