In between studying for IMPR and DB, I’ve snuck in a little time to take a peak at some interesting technologies I’ve been dying to try for a while.
The first is Ruby On Rails - it’s enough to just see the screencast (and try not to laugh at the neat European accent) to understand what this can do [and is doing] to web development.
The Second is XCode - Apple’s development environment, which frankly just blew me away.
After building a functional webbrowser in 5 minutes, and seeing how easilly live comunication between objects is, just makes my head swim…
Sure you can do some of the same things trivially in VB and the like - but this is a full blown C/C++/Objective C environment - you can write real, fast production code with this.
Sheesh, maybe I’ll get some more time to play over the weekend 
