Here are some things I’ve been reading a little about here and there, and I thought maybe some of you would like to see them.
I’ve been kinda interested in reading more about David Yonggi Cho.
His wikipedia link is here, and if you want more info just google the guy, he is all over the place. He is the pastor of the largest chruch in the world located in South Korea.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70034-0.html?tw=rss.index
This is a story about how a pominant financial analyst is saying the home-buying market is going to go down, but by 2010 we are going to see the dow jones above 30,000. He says that realestate is going to flatten, and tech industries, like biomedical as well as IT, are going to go ahead and spur economic growth in the midist of rising oil prices.
I thought that could have a few implications on what I was talking about with ministry opportunities in technology. It means 1, technology will be comoditized even more, hopefully lowing the bar for broadband proliferation in the US, and increasing speeds at which information can travel across the globe, which will in turn make it easier to push those technologies into developing worlds. Also, it means that capital is going to be available for those with good ideas again, and to those who invest savily now. This money could be used to fund projects such as the
Ruby on Rails is freaking cool. I’ve had to go through a couple of hoops to get it set up on my website for testing, but once the DNS catches up I should have a working web-app that took all of a few minutes to get going, complete with database support. I think I will try to use RoR for this web-based project I’m thinking about doing at work.
That is after I finish working the first version in Excel. At this point in the project I’m wondering if it would just be simpler to go web-based anyway, since I have to learn all this stupid Visual Basic for Applications crap that is specific to what program you are using, and you can manipulate everything in weird ways that aren’t well documented in the help. I hate microsoft. And at some point, doesn’t excel just become its own programing language. I mean I have it getting information from Database queries then manipulating that information, spitting it out, creating layouts, and copying information selected by the user from the database query to the new layouts. I damn near could write a program to do that.
I finished upgrading wordpress to 2.0, and had to dump livepress…the plugin that talks to LJ, so instead I have this LJ-crossposter, which is OK, but I’m not sure how well it will work with cut tags yet. Also, it is somewhat limited in how much I can customize it.
In related news I also like PHP. It is like C for the web. If I weren’t going to try to use this upcoming project as an excuse to learn RoR I would do it in php, which wouldn’t be terribly harder since PHP reads so much like C or C++.
That is all for now…just thought some of that was worth sharing.