Joey Codes

Todd's Nugget Pouch looks like a Ruby!

There are two things I have been dying to make a part of my life one is some form of organized code testing framework and another is the Ruby Programming Language. The two things keeping me from these two fine ass bitches has been lack of free time and the fact that I am a C# developer who still couldn’t justify learning the Ruby Programming Language, until now!

Thanks to the last two issues of msdn magazine my hopes and dreams are finally coming to fruition.

In the February 2009 Vol 24 No 2 issue there was a wonderful article in the .Net Interop section called ‘Getting Started With IronRuby And RSpec Part 1′ written by Ben Hall. I have to admit I took a double take at the mere site of the word Ruby on the cover of an msdn magazine. After said double take I did a super cool dance that involved both nudity and violence. My wife loved the dance so much that she quickly became pregnant.

Anyways, in this first article Hall provides a brief introduction to Ruby and Duck Typing, Ruby and the Microsoft .Net Framework, Using IronRuby and RSpec. It was just enough to get me excited about the Ruby Programming Language again.

After reading this first article and becoming all fired up over Ruby I grabbed my ‘Agile Web Development with Rails‘ book and read the super short and massively un-fulfilling chapter at the end that offers a pretty weak introduction to the Ruby Programming Language. Still it was enough to keep me going until I received the March 2009 Vol 24 No 3 Issue of my msdn magazine.

In this new issue Hall continues his series with an article titled ‘Automate Accptance Testing With IronRuby‘. In this newest article Hall covers Acceptance Testing, Automated Acceptance Testing and Implementing Acceptance Tests. I have to admit to planning on reading the article at least once more just to solidify the concepts in my head in preperation for some real world use but it gave me a great head start on getting IronRuby up and running as well as RSpec. Of course I have yet to get IronRuby and RSpec to play nicely to gether but that’s ok.

Now, thanks to msdn magazine and Ben Hall I’m currently three chapters deep into the famed “Picaxe Book” or ‘Programming Ruby, The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide’ and am really enjoying this thing my geek friends have been raving about all this time.

Asp.Net

I am a .Net developer. What does that mean?

One important bullet item to mention, is that it means all of my applications are restricted to running on the often made fun of Windows platform.

To all of those Windows haters out there I have two words for you. Suck It! Windows is a great operating system and if it weren’t, then it would have gone the way of OS/2…whatever that is.

Now I know what you are thinking. Here’s another closed minded developer that went with the first thing to give him a non female generated boner. You’re half right. I gave Java a bit of a chance at one point in my career. Sure the language is great and yes it runs ANYWHERE. My problem with the word anywhere is that it smokes weed with the word EVERYWHERE. Do I have time to learn every friggin Java framework out there and every possible server setup or configuration in order to broaden my job possibilities? Hell no I don’t. I have more important things to do like have sex with my wife and drink Makers Mark. Grant it I really don’t know what I’m talking about but that’s cool because neither do most of the people I know so no biggie.

I chose .Net because let’s face it, all I have to do is search for .Net jobs and have my pick of the results. I know what platform the apps will run on, I’m pretty sure the data will be managed by MS SQL Server and I know the framework. Do I fear challenge no, I do however enjoy familiarity. With every new project comes challenge so I’m all set in that department thanks. Do I own Java and Ruby books? Hell yeah! Why? Because I’m a friggin nerd and a lemming. I see my friends getting interested in stuff and blindly follow along. Is this wrong? Hell no! That’s how they ended up liking this shit.

I originally intened this post to be a wonderfull description of my current OSX / Windows development setup but it seems to have turned into a rant about what I do for a living and why I do it. My bad.

Take from this what you will and remember, we can’t all be as cool as Milo in Antitrust.

Originally From: http://blog.flickchart.com/index.php/flickchart-for-iphone/

So we’ve been working hard to release a small gift to all of our beta testers who’ve been extremely helpful over the past few months, and we’re very pleased to announce:

Flickchart for iPhone - http://iphone.flickchart.com

For those of you lucky enough to have an iPhone 3G (or the original iPhone), you now have a great way to get in some of those extra rankings while you’re waiting in the queue lines to see The Dark Knight, or during the agonizingly long 30 minutes of commercials playing before the movie starts.

This is a work-in-progress, but the core ranking functionality and the ability to view your top 20, as well as the global charts, are all in place.

We’ll be adding more features to this in the future while we also continue to dig in to all of the great suggestions you’ve been providing us on our Get Satisfaction page, and through your many excellent emails.

We hope you enjoy Flickchart for iPhone, and as always, please let us know what you think.

Last night I had a wonderful time with my friends as we enjoyed yet another G.O.A.T.S.E. or ‘Greater Orlando Area Tavern Socialites Event’. During our event I ate some delicious chicken strips which I immediately regretted. You see, even though chicken strips are crispy and delicious they are still filled with the raw power of Satan and eating them only admits that the terrorists have won.

Below is a video of me playing some Wii Tennis. It’s sort of my own personal F. U. to both Satan and those crazy chicken strip endorsing terrorists.