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A complete reset
By Sparky | November 21, 2005
I’ve been getting more and more into the creative process and configuring and hacking Wordpress has inspired me to get back into web development from not merely a design perspective, but also a development one. In an effort to set up a clean development enviroment I’m wiping my powerbook and reinstalling a lot of my software. I have a full HDD backup so I won’t lose anything, but I don’t plan on reinstalling any of the things I had played with in the past but don’t really use. I’m also going to try to stick to open source software as much as possible. I’m going to ditch NetNewsWire and try out Vienna, as well as change around a few of the other editing tools that I’ve been using. Pretty much the only closed source software I’m going to be using (aside from parts of OS X) is going to be Adobe Photoshop. I’ve played with Gimp in the past, but I just can’t do as much as I want to design wise with it.
My new development efforts are going to be based on PHP and Ruby. I’ve done a lot with PHP/MySQL in the past so getting back into that has been easy, but Ruby is something that I have not worked with. From what I have seen in playing with Ruby it’s a fantastic little language and I can’t wait to get more involved with it.
Wish me luck and pray that by the time tomorrow morning rolls around my powerbook will be rocking and ready to go for work!
Topics: Daily grind, Open source, Technology |