Taken a direction

So I’ve been writing and reading code for a while now, but I feel as if I’m only scratching the surface.

In my opinion programming is a practical skill that must be practiced. Books and videos can only take you so far. In order to take a deep dive you need to just pick a field/framework/system and build it!. So I’ve picked android. Why?

• Easy to test and deploy
• I’m comfortable with java
• massive user and developer base
• lots of documentation and resources

If you too wish to level up from learning a language to becoming comfortable using a language - jump in and make something! And for me android is an excellent choice.

Arch Linux

It’s been a long time since my last post….

So recently I’ve converted my system to Arch linux which I’m really enjoying. I do love debian but its just too old to use on a development desktop and the Arch Wiki is just fantastic! also I love their motto: a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple. - Thats excatly what im looking for. After getting used to the packaging tools I’m finally slightly productive again. I’m still a little scared by the AUR but wow it has everything, just dont forget to read those PKGBUILD files!
hint pacaur and others are great for managing aur installed software.

Update to previous post
Arch specific instructions:
Install ruby and a javascript runtime:

pacman -S ruby nodejs

Install jekyll and bundle gems:

gem install jekyll bundle
bundle install