Proc.new

Welcome to my little corner of the Internet. I like to ramble on about things that are technology related or startup related. You can take a quick look at the categories on the sidebar to get the gist of what this blog is about.

My name is Doug Tolton, I’ve been a professional programmer for over a decade now. Currently I’m hooked on Ruby on Rails, and I’m working on a new product that I hope to form a company around. This will be my fourth company, and before you ask, no I’m not rich yet. I hope to share some of the mistakes and lessons I’ve learned along the way to anyone who wants to learn through someone else’s experience.

Why Proc.new? Proc’s create blocks in Ruby that can be passed around and manipulated, they are a fundamentally powerful concept and one of the core idioms in Ruby. Learning about Procs in Ruby is important if you are interested in high level abstraction. I also couldn’t think of anything that was short that used the words database or entrepreneur, thus, Proc.new.