Byting the Apple

Now that the Bali/Hong Kong Adventure is over, and the bulk of the grunt work (teacher laptop imaging, equipment purchasing, Google Apps Migration, new user setup) has finished, I’ve started to have a bit of fun.

Today’s accomplishments:

• Installing Linux (Ubuntu 11.04) on a few of our “retired” laptops. The new Unity interface is impressively user-friendly, and install was incredibly easy from a USB key. My original plan was to use the machines for our alumni computer lab, but I think I might keep one for myself as a dev box.
• Finally finishing the try ruby! tutorial. It’s short (30 minutes?) but I’m not sure I could ever write C code again…
• Figuring out my first mini web app. I’m going to make an announcements page for teachers to load in homeroom. Teachers (and maybe students?) can submit announcements - and set the grades/dates they want the announcements to show. It should be a good way to learn Rails & jQuery!