60 days passed since I decide to learn Ruby & Rails after I attended the Cloud Foundry 2012 tour. I'm now somewhat familiar with Rails 3.2, I following the learning roadmap proposed by huacnlee and found most useful resource for Rails is still the official Ruby on Rails Guide. So if you also want to learn the Rails, I recommend you only read that.

In my working Semiconductor factory, some of the machine is heavily protected by network isolate (You can image those machine a very frangible PC which have no windows update turn on), the network is so isolate that only certain bridge PC can connect in both inside intranet and outside - still intranet. To make things even worse, the isolated network is nested; the real machine need cross two level bridge PC to reach the application server.

It's is required by my college as a part of party game, based on Bishoy Labib's version on CodeProject, I make a large picture version base on the blogs started something. the source code can be folked at github.com.

Some blogs says Windows is not a right platform to start Learning Ruby, maybe it's right, but anyway, I just successfully install the latest Ruby&Rails web stack following below steps:

I just attend the CFOpenTour2012 in Shanghai yesterday; its a little surprise that tour didn't require any register fee although I always believe a small amount of register fee can help make audience more concertrate.

Mark Lucovsky's opening keynotes is not shock me. Either I'm already tried the Cloud Foundry before the conference or I also run my blog in GAE. I didn't known Mark as familiar as Ballmer or Dave Cutler. But it do shock me after I check the Wikipedia that Mark is the one few guy who make Ballmer threw the chair. The web stack of Cloud Foundry are all open source, the method and system archtecutre of Mark's key notes final program, maybe name stac2 was very different with existing web application, it is totally spread to 20+ different vm server and seems quite scalable.

I'm using a Windows 7 as my working notebook and usually I use PuTTY as SSH client to linux machine. Recently my Boss plan to implement a dedicated SCM server using GIT and after do some internet research, I found some blogs saying do not using putty and gitolite together. Certainly, it is not true and here is how to build a dedicated centrol.

SSD is brilliant faster in random IO access; I have 5GB+ email which I searching on my daily job, all emails is a one big MS Outlook 2007 PST file. When I store this file in SSD, it takes less than 2 second to get the final result, but if I such file store in the the HDD, it takes 20+ second! So after I setup my new working PC, I quite missing my SSD and finally decide to switch to us my 2 years old the SanDisk SSD.

Yesterday I just got a new notebook Dell E6320 as a working PC for the next 3 years, I would like to record down the hardware system configuration info and hoping it can be a interesting when we look back after 10 years.