Rails 1.2 has all these RESTful goodies. Or, that’s the idea I get. I’ve read several things this past week, and think I can make use of REST ideas, but I can’t explain them. (And no, I’m not going to find a good link either. Ha!)

The point I’m getting to is that I realize the need to determine a balance between learning every new tool and trick and ‘getting things done’. This is a problem I often find myself having. I want to program the “best way” but how to learn all that’s out there? Of course, the answer I come to is to learn what I can, but when it’s time to work, work. I’ll rarely do things the absolute best way, but there’s probably a law of decreasing returns on such learning.

Anyhow, I guess that’s to say to aspiring programmers, don’t try to figure it all out (good advice anyway, I think). Reading blogs seems to be one of the best ways to get the snippets of knowledge needed to decide on various topics if I should find out more. On the other hand, I’m certainly no expert.

Just typing out loud…