Coffee and Clover

Feel like the bullet train lately ... zipping down the Ruby on Rails track. It's really fun, it's really flexible, it's ... really kinda dangerous to anyone who lacks programming discipline and moreso to someone who doesn't know what he's doing. Lack of discipline can lead to messing yourself up since, among other things, constants, classes, and methods can be changed. Price to pay for the extreme levels of flexibility of course. :D Charo calls Ruby "BASIC with class," I agree. But with a beginner keep the flexibility stuff away until he develops programming discipline, otherwise it's a disaster waiting to happen.

Been studying Ruby on Rails and suddenly I feel like a Formula 1 car's gearbox. Shift ... shift ... shift ... with a high speed engine whining behind the racing helmet. Though long I've known several programming languages this is the first time my brain's been shifting among four languages all within a single day. I'm actually conceptualizing or working on projects representing only three of those languages, but recent prolonged exposure to Java leaves it lingering in my head and swimming with the other three. Happy though that I don't find myself mixing syntax or structure :D