After playing a bit with Ruby the language I decided to get a crash-start in Rails and turned up for the Ruby-on-Rails class run by Skillsmatter. We got
Jamie van Dyke from Engine Yard as our instructor. One of the good things about courses that is hard to pick up from books is getting a feel for the culture round a language – in this case it was soon obvious that Ruby culture is pretty heavily blog-based. And since Jamie also told us, ‘if you want to do Ruby, get a blog’, here’s mine.

Which isn’t to say that I won’t manage to squeeze a bit of openstreetmap and other topics in here from time to time ;-)