Now that my co-op at Lexmark is over for the semester, I won’t get to do Ruby or Rails stuff on a daily basis except in my own projects. This is more of a bad thing than good because while I’ll have the freedom to spend more time with projects like Hegemony, there won’t be the necessity to continually read updates in the Ruby community or even program in it daily. Hegemony seems pretty stable, but of course as more people start using it, I’m sure problems will crop up. That will definitely warrant my attention, but there won’t be the daily improvement, refactoring, bug fixing, and feature adding like there is at work.

Of course I plan to keep up with the community, in fact I was just browsing my regular Ruby feeds via Netvibes this morning. My time for that sort of thing, and leisure programming in particular, will be cut down severely when classes start in January, though. I’ll be taking five: intro to algorithms, the second logic circuits class, an intro to biology, discrete math, and the second physics lab class. Logic circuits will probably require programming, but most likely in Assembly or Verilog. Algorithms may involve some C++ or Perl. And of course UK doesn’t offer any classes with Ruby. I don’t even know that it’s mentioned in any of the classes available.