Posted on Thursday November 10, 2005 in Work
At Pixelframe, where I work two days a week, we have just won a large contact for a site with a range of requirements. These have mainly to do with membership functionality, but there is also a shopping cart component and some events management involved.
The question has arisen: do we risk coding the whole thing from scratch, which would give us a fantastic custom-built CMS membership system at the end of the project, but may take quite a while as I can only work on it two days a week, or; do we take an existing number of products and attempt to klodge them together?
We have decided on the second option and have begun talent-scouting for appropriate scripts. However the end result will be nowhere near as elegant as it could have been.
I really wanted to try to rock this in Rails, as my first real life project in the Ruby language. However doing a realworld application first up is probably not a good idea.
In other news, I have consolidated hosting for Butter Beats and so all of the sites are back online. I have also had my hair cut.
If you look to your right you can see a whole bunch of little thumbnails that are served from my Flickr account. Thanks must go to Jon Hicks for showing me how to do it.