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I’ve started to look into Ruby, and it is a very nice language. And with the excellent, amazing framework called Rails, it is a good choice for new Web applications.

I am really excited about Ruby and it’s Rails, it feels like it’s been a long time since I’ve found a language I can use practically in my every day work. PHP is fine, but Ruby just might be better. Once I get a grasp of Ruby and have some experience with the Rails framework, I will try developing in it (more and more hosts are starting to support it nowadays) — maybe I’ll like it.

Anyhow, if you’re a developer and haven’t checked out Ruby and Rails, then you definitely need to. Ruby is the “next big thing” these days, but it really is looking quite nice. We’ll have to see where it goes. PHP has had it’s run I think, unless this framework Zend has been going on about can compete with Rails or Python’s Twisted.

Edit
Take a look at this video. The guy builds a blog app with Ruby and Rails in about 15 minutes. Cool!

This week has been pretty short. Monday there was a college fair thing, so I got out of going to school. I went Tue and Wed, then I had a physical on Thurs (which I took advantage of and took the rest of the day off ;-)) and Friday I helped my Mom’s sister move out. My teachers are probably like, “wtf”

TNT has been on the back burner lately. I’ve been doing some work for Tim, then I’ve got (boring) school that takes up a good hunk of my time. After Webmaster-Talk’s big refurbish (which should be done by Friday or Saturday), I plan on putting a little more emphasis on TNT in my schedule.

I would have done this anyway, but after todays chat with Tim, TNT has moved up the ladder in my priority list. Tim and Dave (that is, DaveMo~ from WT) talked several months ago about starting a new tech site up. And then, lone and behold, I do it So Tim asked what I thought of them joining forces with me, since I’ve already got things off to a start. How could I refuse? Tim is excellent at marketing and advertising and Dave is one of the best community coordinators I’ve ever seen. As a team, we’ll be unstoppable

This isn’t like DBF (which, by the way, has pretty much morphed into WT + DR) or my participation on WT, either. All of us are co-owners. So when people ask “what’s your site”, or when online registrations ask for a homepage, I can type in TNT with all confidence

When I first opened the doors to TNT’s forums, it really felt nice to be in control and have a site again. That feeling of prominence has increased ten-fold now that I know Tim and Dave are on board.

I’m really excited about this, I can’t wait to see what the future holds for TNT.