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Rush Hour Multitasking.

On the very top of this website you can read something about this blog being no more than a temporary solution. And yes, it is a temporary solution. Since last year’s December 30.

Ten days ago I got my (mt) MediaTemple Account Welcome Letter. I’m glad to be able to use Ruby on Rails on a public server now, since I couldn’t do more than run it on my own machine before.

Now I’ve got holidays — one week. Some free time, one could say. Hanging around ’cause there are no lessons to attend at the moment? Well, there’ll be a whole lot of class exercises that I’ll have to write until christmas. And there’s our pupils magazine. We want to publish another issue in about seven weeks. And, sponsored by the car producer BMW, there’ll be an exhibition organised by our school at the local Kulturspeicher.

You can imagine, I’d really like to find some time for development — for example for this site’s next version. There are hundreds of projects I’d like to push further, but it is nearly impossible. There’s never enough time to do so. What am I going to do about it? There’s something called gradualistic policy. I think that’s the right term to describe what I’m doing right now. My online projects tend to go on slowly. But they do go on and my Ruby on Rails skills are getting better every time I play around with it.
I’ve got the book Agile Web Development with Rails and pretty much built half of an online shop system with its help. Tomorrow I’m going to work my way through Jim Rutherford’s 12 Top Ruby on Rails Tutorials.

But not today. I’m going to shut down Webkit (the nightly build of Apple’s Safari, my browser of choice) and my MacBook Pro now and will probably relax listening to some music or watching the show with zefrank — he’s thinking, so I don’t have to.

PS: If you read more on this site, you’ll be thinking “Ok, he’s once again complaining about time.”. But you’re right — that’s what this rant is about.