That little girl is Ruby. She is hacking a PHP corpse to pieces. She is on Rails. It does that to you.

Today i woke to the tune of nausea. It didn't subside for about an hour. I think it's lack of sleep.

Just a couple of days with Ruby on Rails (meme of the month) and i must say: wow.

Unlike most coders i'm an aesthete. I believe strongly in an 'art' of programming. This came down from my father, who in the early eighties used a multi-national's resources to stage a Fractals exhibition. That was in S.America and Fractals were (and possibly remain) the big daddies of computer art. My dad believes in spiritual programming. I'm not sure what this means yet. Then again i am young, dumb and full of CRUD.

Which brings me onto Ruby. And Rails. This framework has style. It feels great. I can't remember the last time i looked at code and thought that. Ruby's syntax is a breath of fresh air in a world of Java tangles and Perl obscurity. And it's powerful. It's not a designer-wants-to-make-a-website kind of tool. It has real depth. Downside: The Ruby libraries look a bit thin. And no webhost is running it.

It was a close call between going with this or Perl's Maypole (a similar MVC framework). But for now, I'm sold. More info on my project soon.