I am a software engineer by training and by temperament. I love working with computers, getting them to do all sorts of silly things. Having been without work for awhile, however, sort of stifles my creativity in terms of what to do about programming. In reading “My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job”, Chad Fowler recommends coding practice and points to the Pragmatic Programming weblog as a place where there are Kata, or exercises, available to help keep your programming skills honed.

I’ll be doing these and posting about them here, including links to the code. I’m currently learning Ruby, so that will be my primary language of development, at least for the time being.