On leave, at work

As odd as this may sound, I'm on leave and at work.

I spent 2006 working free-lance as a designer/developer and had some fun dealing with a wide variety of projects... but I took a full time job at the start of 2007.

I work almost exclusively with ASP.NET now and am beginning to get my legs back. I am making good use of AJAX.NET that finally came out of beta a few weeks ago. Not too bad, but it ain't no RJS!

I'd never do something as unfair as outright compare Rails to ASP.NET, but since I will be working predominantly with the latter for the next while, I will post my more meaningful findings and experiences here.

New Liru Design Website Launched

I've been so busy in the last few months (keeping clients happy) that my own interests have been severely neglected. But at long last the Liru Design Website is up and running.

In fact this blog is the official project blog for all my efforts at Liru Design.

In the near future I'll give you some background on two projects I've just completed:

1. A Corporate Intranet for a large regional company
2. A promotional website for a annual, international sporting event.
   

Who lays all these tracks?

I've been programming commercially for over 7 years and have been specializing in web applications for about the last 5 of those 7. For the larger projects I've churned out copious amounts of ASP.NET and for a several smaller apps I've used PHP and a bit of Java.

I the latter part of 2005 a good friend of mine introduced me to Ruby On Rails. I was pretty busy at the time so I sort of brushed it aside and just added it to my already lengthy ToDo list.

A few months later, when I started to take an in depth look at the infamous "full-stack framework" I was cursing myself inside the first 30 minutes for not doing so sooner. But as I often say, "better late than never", right?

I'm going to use this blog to document my more coherant ramblings as I adventure through Ruby on Rails. My intention here is to provide some (hopefully) useful feedback/hints/tips to those that may come after me. After all, I wouldn't have made it this far were it not for the bloggers, wiki editors and tutorial writers that have gone before me.

As an additional objective, this space will serve as a journal of my efforts as a freelance developer under the umbrella Liru Design. This seems to make sense since most of the freelance projects I work on have been, and will be developed and deployed in Ruby on Rails. What better way to share insight than with real world applications?

So anyway, on with the show.

Thanks and you're welcome.