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Well it took me almost.. how much.. 3-4 months to learn Ruby on Rails from scratch, to the point when 2 of my Rails-based projects are ready to go wild in January, 2007 :)

And if you want some teasers, here you are

Gakuen blog project

Nagoya Talent Navi project

Both projects a blog-based systems, written from scratch, in Web 2.0 style (where it was necessary, of course), skinnable, using Akismet for blog spam filtering, lots of nice features including TinyMCE text editing (with custom image-upload plugin), very easy to use, and ready to be translated into any language since GetText facility was used to localize them into Japanese. Gakuen blog is actually a renewal of our company's Media Japan Gakuen blog project, so initially it will feature pretty much articles (5000+ articles, 10000+ images, 500+ Megs of data overall). I wonder how our (not very powerful) server will handle the multiple connections in the wild :) Anyways, looking forward for the January, 5th.  I'll post more info then.

In other news, since our company will change the ownership from privately-held company to stock-company, I've got a new name cards today. Well the design sucks I know but oh well I don't have many chances to hand them out to anybody, anyway :D

Hopefully, after finishing with the forementioned two big projects I'll have some more time to spend blogging (there's pretty lots of things I have learned along the way and would love to share if only I had enough time to spare ;)

Well this really sucks. I had an accident today by crashing into a car which was turning to a side-street without actually watching if there's anyone on the walkway, while i was riding my bicycle on pedestrian walkway. The result is a nice acrobatic performance (i guess) and broken right collarbone so it will take 3 to 4 months until I can lift stuff again and 3 weeks until the bone will reconnnect again. I can type and stuff like that, but I guess it'll take some time before i will be able to code without taking rests every 10 bloody minutes. Well that really sucks but at least the jerk who was driving the car will get a very nice bill from his ensuranse company next year. Anyway, will try to get new bone grown ASAP :) Broken bones suck ;)