The Big Switch
Well, it’s been a few weeks of working fulltime with Ruby, Rails, on OS X and I must say, I know so much less than I thought I did about OS X, Ruby, and Unix-like systems than I could have imagined. I have taken for granted that in the last seven years of experience I had come to intimately know the Windows stack, and could bend it to my will and bring it back from the brink of death at a moment’s notice with the flip of a switch. I believe educators would say I had fully internalized this knowledge, and not having that foundation to rely upon is really quite scary.
Happily though, I’ve commited myself to doing the same for Linux, OS X, Ruby, Rails, MySQL and host of other great tools. The follow couple of posts will be dedicated to some of the things I’ve found most difficult about switching over from a Windows environment, and how to effectively use some powerful tools that I’ve come across on the way. I think others in the same position will find this info quite helpful. Either way, nothing quite reinforces what you learn like writing it down, so even if it doesn’t help anyone else, it’ll still be useful to me. I’m lucky enough to have the support of some extremely smart, talented, patient, and helpful people, and to everyone I work with, Afshin, and Katie, thanks for putting up with me as I get aclimated.
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