Comments on: What am I up to?

By: FollowSteph.com - What am I Up to?

FollowSteph.com - What am I Up to? — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:40:34 +0000

[...] it’s been almost a year since I last posted what I’ve been up to, and what a year it’s been! I’ve been just as busy this year as last year, if not [...]

By: FollowSteph.com » What is Scope Creep?

FollowSteph.com » What is Scope Creep? — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:14:21 +0000

[...] the next major release of LandlordMax. We wanted to offer Quickbooks support but that’s been postponed because of the scale. We also wanted to offer check printing but that’s been pushed to a future version as well. [...]

By: Steph

Steph — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:50:17 +0000

Krug is a great writer. It’s not just his content, but also his presentation. Even if you’re not interested in the topic, it’s still a very interesting read.

And thanks! So do I.

By: Louisville Realtor

Louisville Realtor — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:33:31 +0000

I’m a big fan of Krug’s work as well. Sounds like you have some really interesting plans, I look forward to seeing the finished product!

By: Steph

Steph — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:45:04 +0000

Hi Andy,

Thanks! And as for how it will be financed, I haven’t really decided yet. Right now I’m leaning towards advertising, but we’ll see. I’m still in the testing phase.

The good news though is that so far by only putting a link here on my blog, embedded fairly deep in a long article, it’s already starting to get some significant traffic. It will easily hit in the low 4 figures of unique visitors per month for July! That’s not bad for zero marketing and only one highly embedded link.

Anyways, I’m sure there’s some potential for PerfectTablePlan. I was actually thinking about you and your company when I originally came up with the idea. We can continue this offline by direct email, but I’m sure we can work something out that benefits both of us. I’ll contact you shortly.

By: Andy Brice

Andy Brice — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:35:16 +0000

The wedding dress site looks interesting. I assume it will be financed by advertising? Probably not much potential for PerfectTablePlan ads – brides tend to look for dresses long before they do table plans.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:06:35 +0000

I agree with you Scott that Rails will run on any *nix, and many hosting companies do support it. The same is true for J2EE actually.

It’s just that virtually everyone supports PHP. You don’t need to configure it or install it. PHP is already all setup for you. That means one less layer of support to handle. You don’t have to explain why they need RoR specific hosting, or root access, or how to install and setup hosting for RoR.

Otherwise honestly I’d be looking at J2EE because of the great MyFaces and IceFaces implementation. Those really simplify implementation, are quick, and the biggest reason is that we already have a large portion of that code written from the current application (it’s a Java Swing application). However again it’s the same issue. We have to specify J2EE hosting, or explain how to install Java and Tomcat/JBoss…

Basically I’m removing a larger barrier to entry. I find that RoR and CodeIgniter are very similar and both allow you to do some very amazing web application development.

By: Scott Meade

Scott Meade — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:19:19 +0000

I agree with you that CodeIgniter is impressive and would be a good choice. Just to clarify though, Rails will run in most any *nix environment. There are companies that specialize in Rails hosting, yet I don’t see any reason a Rails app could not be deployed to any *nix host on which you have root access.