Archive for December, 2007

The development journal that wasn’t

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

I started this blog in steath mode in June of 2007 when I first began work on OnlinePrimary.us.  I intended it to be a journal of the development process, which I would bring out of stealth mode when I launched the site.  As you’ll see from the preceding posts, I adhered to that discipline for a while, but soon went off the rails.  I hope to retroactively fill in more of the development highlights and lowlights (such as the mid-course shift from Ruby on Rails to PHP) after I get more of the site built out.  But in the meantime there’s an awful looong gap between this post and the bunch that precede it.  If you get all the way back to the first post, you’ll see my original intention was to build the site in a dingle month.  For a variety of reasons, that went off the rails too.  I’ll try to talk about that too one of these days.