First Post

So, I’ve finally started blogging, this is something I’ve been wanting to do for almost a year now but work and life have managed to keep me too busy up to now.  This is my first post here so It makes sense to tell you a little about who I am and what I’m interested in so you know what you’re getting into by reading this blog.  It feels a little strange though, logically I should introduce myself right at the start but right now there’s no one listening so does it really matter?  Anyways, hopefully someone will someday go back into the archives and find this introductory post helpful.

My name is John Duff, I live in Canada’s capital city, Ottawa and work full time as a Software Developer.  I graduated Carleton University in 2006 from Software Engineering.  I’m currently working with Ruby and Rails for the most part but have done a fair bit of Java, .Net, Javascript and Flex programming as well.  At the moment I have a bit of a fixation with FriendFeed and various other Social Media outlets and am very interested in what is happening with cloud computing. I’m also dabbling in design (photoshop, illustrator, css) a bit more as well as keeping up with what is happening in the Ruby community.