Lately, the need to finish these major projects at work before I switch jobs at the end of August has turned most of my coding time (well, all of it right now) into ASP.NET time. Blech. It’s okay, I suppose, and it could be worse (COBOL, anyone?), but I miss Ruby on Rails. Soon, Ben, soon. :)

In the meantime, the library finally got me Agile Web Development with Rails via ILL. I’ve been waiting a while for it. :) Just reading about Rails makes me happy. (Speaking of which, I must be behind on my Rails blog reading. Maybe I’ll do that for a while today… :))

Another little project I’ll do sometime soon is convert my Perl etext script into Ruby (it takes Project Gutenberg texts and preps them for InDesign by removing extra blank lines, removing newlines, replacing two hyphens with an em-dash, etc.). It can’t be that hard — it’s 15 lines long :) — and it’d be a nice back-to-Ruby project to tide me over until all this work stuff is finished.

Speaking of which, I really, really, really wish I could write this extraction web app in Rails instead of ASP.NET. I could get it done sooooo much faster, and I’d be happier. But the rest of the site is in ASP.NET and I’d have to get the sysadmins to install Rails on the server and it’d probably be too much trouble. ~sigh~ Oh well — only one more month of it, and then it’s goodbye forever to .NET. Period. :)

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