Earlier this year, in the month of our Lord Vishal (thats me), July,  I decided to start blogging for the third and shortest time yet. I’ve decided to try this blogging thing for a 4th time.

The first time around, it was supposed to be about programing. I was learning a bunch of languages all at once – C++, PHP, Java etc.. in college and I thought that it’d be a great idea to talk about it! It wasn’t – mainly because I’m not emotionally connected to programing as most programmers.

The second, was a halfhearted attempt at a photo blog. This one went a bit further – my brother had just bought me a digital camera – and I loved it so much that I ended up taking pictures of everything! But mostly landscape and architecture . I took this one picture of the then newly renovated football / multipurpose field at Trent University in Peterborough Canada – simply gorgeous. Anyway. I actually don’t remember why I stopped the 2nd time around! Hmm..f ail.

The third was of course earlier this year – July. And now here I am – again. But why is this time different? Well for starters, I don’t want to begin with any focus in particular. This blog is part of my selfish pursuit to better myself and, hopefully, share some of the things I learn and notice along the way. You’ll see pictures, and songs I like, and inspirational tidbits and quotes and cooking recipes and random adventures… all so badly written that you’ll feel compelled to enroll me into a writing class – or maybe just a spelling and grammar class.

As the Zen master once said, we’ll see.

Last week I began delving into Rails in order to work on MobileFolk. After a crash course in Ruby on Rails from my buddy Alex, I began writing my first pieces of code, starting with models. I spent two days and every line of Ruby I wrote made the gaps in my knowledge more and more obvious to me (and Alex).

I’ve decided to take a few steps back and do things the right way. This includes

• Setting up Xcode (since it is my environment of choice)
• Learning Rails properly using Agile Development With Rails.

Anyone thinking about giving Xcode a go for Rails development should look at this tutorial by Apple.

Stay tuned.. more coming soon