Since the last post, I’ve narrowed down to using Ruby as the language I’m in the process of learning for the class and Rails as the context for it. However, I haven’t spent much more time beyond my initial exposure to the Lynda.com video on learning it.

As for how I will employ this within the Artist schema, I am still unsure. Presumably, and as I mentioned in the previous post, this will be web related in some form. And probably use Twitter, as that has been my continuing fixation within my own work outside of the class. However, as for how these different things will collide, I’ve still have yet to figure out.

On that same front, I did finish reading Form + Code and did like a great deal of it. Much of it was geared toward the artist crowd (i.e. people without my background), so there wasn’t too much I hadn’t already be exposed to from a general content point of view. However, I did really enjoy the examples, even if constantly wished they had more space for printing the algorithms and steps involved instead of merely pointing people towards the website to get the code.

I will probably borrow from these — once I actually get around to visiting the website to get the code — for my own project. Perhaps doing some sort of visual presentation of textual data somehow, maybe. I’ve always wanted to play around more with the ideas from Graphs, Maps, Trees.