Nice Rake overview

Just spotted a nice post here.

Janki Method - spaced repetition

Interesting idea about how to learn technical subjects quickly is covered here using spaced repetition and a free fact-deck app called Anki.

Name generators in Ruby

Found this. Feel the need to read up on Markov Chains now.

It would be great if I could break into a Ruby app like I can break into a Visual Studio app

Eventually not knowing how to do this (or even if it was possible) annoyed me enough that I did a bit of Googling. I came up with this on StackOverflow. There are a few options there. I need to try them out to see which one(s) provide a behaviour I'm happy with.