New Venture, Part 7

This is part 7 of the series; part 6 is here.

My working vacation to Thailand was very productive, and as a result I'm about one month ahead of schedule. I consider the current PHP-based prototype an alpha version because it implements a decent subset of the final functionality without stuff like security, content versioning, scalability and internationalization.

The next step is to port the PHP code to Ruby on Rails. I'm hoping to get an initial port done in about a week, at which point I'll add the additional features necessary for an invitation-only beta 1 release at the end of December.

Since I'm not familiar with Ruby on Rails, I expect the initial port will not take full advantage of the language or the framework. It's not a big deal though because I still have plenty of time in the schedule to polish the design and code. I will blog any interesting things I find out while I'm doing the port. It should be a lot of fun!

Part 8 of this series is here.