Programming

I am now live with StakeItOut/Beta. Note the site is only ssl.

In the next couple of days I will explain what it actually is about.

In the first week I will only trickle in new users to make sure that the server holds up and that there aren’t any major bugs I’ve overseen.

As always send me an email at [email protected] and I will add you to the beta list.

So I did get my beta site more or less working last night. However there are still a few issues I need to iron out, before I invite the first early beta testers in.

There seem to be som differences in the way the application (which is written in Ruby on Rails) works in development and production mode. Otherwise the issues are related to the differences in Webrick and fastcgi deployment. Needs investigating in tonights session.

My wife/CFO has promised a restaurant trip tomorrow if and only if it is up and running by then, so I better figure it out by then ;-).

I’ve finally got the core functionality working in my application. I’m using Ruby on Rails and there was a bug in the way it handles many to many associations, this is what was holding me up the past two days.

Well patch was submitted and my code committed.

Now all that matters is cleaning it up a bit and I’ll deploy to the server.

Over the weekend and this morning I have been working on getting the final functionality ready of my app before beta. There is just one final feature that is messing me about right now. I feel like I’m nearly there. But now I need to go off to work. I know this is going to be bugging me all day.

However the good thing is once I have got that done it is pretty much a straight forward clean up and deploy. It should be ready then for the first few early beta testers.

What is my app then? Hang on and all will be revealed. As the fundamentals of the app are now pretty much rock solid, I will start adding icing to the cake, which is where the real fun begins. Then I will start letting people in.

I can hint that it is a collaborative tool for micro businesses and other groups who need very strong security. It is not meant as a competitor to Basecamp nor Backpack, but more as a complementing tool.

If anyone is interested in being early beta testers let me know at StakeItOut Beta Request.

Off to work, I’m already late.