With the arrival of the new monitor the hardware buying binge is complete. Now I’ve settled in for some more serious development. I spent a couple of hours yesterday working with Rails on the Mac, poking along at my first “real” (as opposed to tutorial) application. I’m not ready to announce it yet, but hopefully I’ll have something to show off within a week or two.
Rails development continues to agree with me. Lots to learn but the pieces fit together in a sensible manner.
I’m proceeding up the Mac learning curve reasonably well, with pauses to try to hunt down tools and utilities I need. There’s not nearly as many choices on the Mac side as on the Windows side, but I knew that going in. Perhaps that will translate to market opportunity for me at some point.
A reader wrote to ask how many hours a day my personal “20% time” comes to. I’ve been allocating not less than an hour a day to this effort. Now that I have the dev environment set up, I expect to up that to two hours most days. As the year goes on and I transition into whatever my new career turns out to be, hopefully that will grow.
