4 weeks with Ruby
The past month brought a bunch of changes in my developer carrier. Change of job team, office, city... and technologies. One of these was to start learning a new language for developing software: Ruby! It is quite a change from the programming languages I went through before (in short, Turbo Pascal, C, C++, Assemblers, Java, C#). I was advised a very good Ruby book, Eloquent Ruby and some fancy "training exercises", the " Ruby Koans " to start learning about Ruby. After a few days I realized that a better exercise for me would be to re-implement my "home zwave proxy" (developer in C++, using directly the ZWay C library); and well, it was a good idea. After 4 weeks (well, a few hours in the evenings), with some basic knowledge of Ruby, I almost managed to reach the same "level of functionality" as my native C++ application. "Almost", because there is definitively something I miss in this fancy Ruby world: real callbacks on event