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Good Stuff

Ruby on Rails is great with a clean framework, fun language, and an active community.

Why the Lucky Stiff

Ruby on Rails

Ruby

Two things melt my face: fire, and Nine Inch Nails. Their latest album Ghosts is very nice.

Nine Inch Nails

I love this site. Play ’’Bammi’’.

PointlessSites.com

Want to train and don’t know how, or don’t want to pay for an on-line e-coach? Meet Athlo. It’s my latest project. We just rolled out an alpha with tons of development forecasted for the next few months.

Athlo

OmniNerd is like my first child. It the first “real” site I ever wrote. I play a much smaller role these days, but it’s still a great site.

OmniNerd

Athlo Goes Public With Alpha Launch

If you know me, you know that I’ve been locked away for the last seven months working on a project called Athlo. Well, last night we turned it on … sort of. I disabled most of the core features with plans to roll them out one by one. It’s a sort of damage control I suppose. Our development staff is small, so the last thing I want is 100 bug reports coming in about 20 different portions of the site. Our roll out approach should allow us to focus on individual portions of the site, one at a time.

As it stands, you can create a user account and leave your friends messages. Not much, I know. However, we’ve got quite a few cool features that are ready, or days-from-ready, to put on the site. We’re planning on updating the site once a week until we get them all up and running.

For now, we’re not planning on making any big announcements. I think in a month or so, once we’ve got the key features up and running, we can send out some announcement email and contact a few relevant blogs for some press coverage. The site is public though, so if you want to sign up for an account now, go for it. Just don’t expect to be impressed for a few weeks.

That said, it was good to finally get something up and running on the server. Anyone who’s done this sort of thing knows what I mean. You work, work, work for months with nothing to show and then one day it’s online. So, despite it’s current alpha state, I’m excited to have Athlo on-line.

Posted 14 April 2008