Author: John Bain

          

After being denied by the bank for a line of credit I began to question if my customer loyalty was really worth it. This may come off as jaded but I will try to keep it brief. Think about these questions:

1. How does your bank reward your loyalty ?
2. What differentiates your bank from another bank ?
3. How hard would it be for you to switch ?
4. Are banks any different then your Telecom or Cable company ?

My experience with RBC has shown me that they aren’t willing to really do any business. They were willing to hold on to my savings at a fee to myself with little to no return(earned interest) and because of my poor credit I have to get a high interest credit card from a third party like MBNA, Walmart or Canadian Tire before they are willing to even look at me. For those of you who are confused by this situation, so am I.

Has anyone else considered moving to a new bank because the bank you’re currently in is really not working for you ?

P.S.

I hear good things about ING

            

$27 Canadian dollars later and I have completed the first of 11 video tutorials on how to-do “it” Rails 3 style. First video gives the student the chance to build their development environment in ubuntu, this includes aptanas rad rails, git, gitk, git flow, rvm, rails, ruby and a fist full of gems.  One of my biggest concerns with this video was that it was created back in September of 2010 and I didnt want to learn old rails 3 controls and methods but thankfully that wasn’t an issue although some gem version numbers were dated eveything compiled and ran fine.

The video is 42 minutes long and many concepts are touched on, the narator makes a considerable effort to remind the student that this is just an intro and the topics will be hammered into your brain in the following videos.

Myself, I just kept hitting the pause button to follow the narrator. 😀