Today

I spent some part of the day:

• learning Ruby. Pretty new stuff, that ruby syntax. Cool nonetheless, and not particularly difficult.
• learning Shoes. Shoes is a framework build on ruby. Cross platform too. Pretty basic, but it does nice stuff like video and so. And it has no horizontal scrollbars.
• I actually had to build Shoes on my machine, because there’s a bug in the latest available binary which caused a problem for the thing I was trying. Shoes crashed the minute I started the program. Not good. The new build worked flawlessy. I had to build it twice though, because I forgot video support in the first build.
• I also had a fight with git. Git is supposed to be better than svn, but it’s also harder to learn. It took a while before I got my chances to actually commit to the repository.

Some new stuff, in other words. Open source software is pretty cool.