I am at a new job where we the main development platform is .NET in VB. I am baffled by some of the ways things are done in VB.Net. I try not to be a language bigot, but VB.Net just feels messy and wordy to me.

Maybe some of my 0 readers can explain the following to me:

• Why must I explicitly write Implements InterfaceName.MethodName after every method of an Interface I am implementing? The fact that I am implementing an Interface forces me by definition to implement all declared methods.
• What is up with Modules? Is it that hard to write Public Shared Class?

There are probably more, but these are two oddities I encountered today.

This made me laugh today.

http://www.parm.net/web2.0/

Now playing: Angus Robinson's Futurized Radio on Proton  - Flore (Proton Radio..The Best Electronic Music..@128k)

First Blog post.

When I first happened upon Ruby on Rails back when it first appeared on Slashdot, I thought, neat, another toy web framework for writing bad web applications. I had honestly forgotten about it, until a few weeks ago I heard that Rails was gaining momentum and figured it deserved a second look.

I am not sure where I stand on the framework now as I have yet to develop anything with Rails, but the community has me intrigued, as does the Ruby language. Everything seems quite slick after a quick glance, but writing large applications in dynamically typed languages has always made me nervous. It reminds me of some of the most horrible code I have ever had to work with in my career.

So, I’ve bought an iMac(i have never used a Mac in my life),  Programming Ruby  and Agile Web Development with Rails. I have signed up for a year with Dreamhost, I have installed Typo and am ready to try this thing out. Now I just need a project.

Now playing: The M's - Never Do This Again