Gustav von Sydow on digital advertising, online media and tech start-ups

So I’ve decided to take up programming. For real. It’s a bit tragic that I haven’t done a real effort earlier in my life, but on the flip side then I would probably be stuck with a perl-hammer, thinking that every possible software-project is looking like a perl-shaped nail… if you know what I mean.

But now we have Rails. This magic Ruby-based framework that can create Web 2.0-apps while I’m doing dishes. Or so you would think after looking at screencasts or believing what you read in the bloggosphere. Anyhow, in Sweden noone uses Rails. Seems like we quite enjoy doing things the macho-way. But not me, so here we are.

My humble ambition is to build a e-commerce-site/wiki/social network. Being able to do that from scratch with very limited programming experience should really put Rails to the test.

I started (and finished) Learn to program, which was a rather light snack but worthwhile. I’m finishing up the much-talked-about Poignants guide to Ruby now and after that I’ll continue by digesting Agile development with Rails, which is also quite the hype. I’ll keep you posted on my progress (or lack thereof). Wish me luck!