From: Jeremy McAnally <jeremymcanally@...>
Date: 2007-02-06T12:07:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Newbie Advice.

I'll give you four extra credit points if you can make you resume
builder spit out a PDF using PDF::Writer or use LaTeX. ;)

--Jeremy

On 2/5/07, Samantha <rubygeekgirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/5/07, Jeff Barczewski <jeff.barczewski@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Samantha,
> >
> > Welcome to Ruby!! You'll find one of the finest developer communities I've
> > even known. So when you get stuck, feel free to drop an email on the wire,
> > there seems to always be someone out there to help.
>
>
> Thanks so much, Jeff!  That's exactly what I've gathered thus far.
>
> Gentoo Linux, that's a beautiful way to go!! Makes installing and upgrading
> > really wonderful! Good choice!
>
>
> Ya know, I started on Linux back in '99.  I mostly played around with RedHat
> and ran a dual-boot system.  I eventually went to straight Windows, and went
> back to having a dual boot in '05.  I went to Mandrake, then to Fedora, and
> about six months ago decided to take the plunge into Gentoo.  I must've had
> about six fresh installs in the first few weeks of using it, but I haven't
> had to do that in several months now. :)  I have found that I've learned
> more in the six months of using Gentoo than I had in the several years of
> RedHat.  I've even gotten brave enough to use ~x86 sources. :)
>
>
> Think of a project you would like to do and then see how you can tackle it
> > with Ruby. If you are wanting to build web applications then you have many
> > choices in Ruby, the most popular being Rails. For me Ruby and Rails
> > brings
> > all of the fun back into web application development after having done
> > things the hard way for so long (C++, Java, ...)  :-)
>
>
> I'm  researching stuff on YAML, as was suggested in a previous post and am
> going to work on the resume builder.  At some point, I'm going to try and
> make an interactive one on Rails or maybe using a GUI, so that I can take
> input and then spit out a nice looking resume.  Now that I have an idea of
> what to do, I'm really geeked.
>
> There are some great books out there, so check some of them out and you just
> > might come up with a bunch of ideas.
>
>
> Absolutely.  I might be relocating to downstate Michigan (either Metro
> Detroit area or Ann Arbor) and I'm pretty stoked that there are user groups
> down there.  I'm sure I can gleam some ideas there, too.
>
> Thanks again for the warm welcome!
>
>
> --
> Samantha
>
> http://www.babygeek.org/
>
> "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all
> things are at risk."
>   --Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
>


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