Its been a long time coming to this point. I’ve always been fond of computers and programming. As far back as I can remember I spent time with my Father on a Texas Instruments running Pirate Adventure off of a tape recorder. Since that time I’ve grown through systems and languages. Although I’ve got a degree in Civil Engineering and hold a Professional Engineers License, coding has always had a place in my heart as a curiosity and an outlet. I’ve never done it full time but, have always dabbled.

My first experiences were BASIC and Fortran. I became more object oriented learning VBA in Excel and soon saw the light of moving past macros. I grew into Visual Basic and naturally years ago Visual Studio .NET. In late 2004 I came upon Ruby on Rails and began to play around with it. As many others, I was instantly drawn in. Now 5 years later, I’ve become proficient with Rails and follow its improvements on a regular basis. I’ve used Rails to create applications within my job that is comprised of mainly project management of large engineering projects and budgets. Naturally, with Rails comes HTML, CSS, and Javascript. I’m also a believer in HAML.

Each to his own. Either way, this is my place for my own thoughts and discussions surrounding Ruby and Ruby on Rails as well as anything else I feel the need to expand upon or remember. In addition, this is also the site of my company Rails Signals. A place to show its work and code. Not original? A play on words? Regardless, the domain was available, why not?

If you need work or help with work, I’m available. In time, I hope I can become a valuable resource to the Rails Community. Its become a passion of mine and its time.