Steve Sloan

Steve Sloan

Hacker, drummer, primate

Grooming My Inner CodeMonkey

Gooday, eh? This is my coding blog, and welcome to it.

First, I should probably give credit for the inspiration for this blog to the Ruby on Rails Podcast. It introduced me to the Ruby and Rails community, and some of the cool stuff people are doing with it (BDD especially caught my ear). I decided that I had enough thoughts rolling around in my head that might be of use or interest to others, that I should hop on the blog-wagon.

I’m also using this site as a test-bed for some Rails experimentation, starting with using Typo as a base, to which I can add some of my own Rails goodness.

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