Finally got the SSL certificate from Starfield set up. It was a bit trickier of a process because it’s a wild card cert, meaning it covers all subdomains of roommateapp.com as well. These are a lot more expensive too, though not too bad through my reseller account at Heffernan.biz. About $250.
Roommate App is live! Shhhhhh. : ) It’s available for anyone to sign up, but It’s not 100% tested, so I’m waiting to tell anybody. For those who find this and try it out, let me know if you find any bugs. Thanks!
Roommate App
Very close to launching Roommate App. I’m at a point where I’m cutting back on features that don’t absolutely have to be there for launch, and making sure the ones that are there are solid. I even designed a super simple homepage.
Quick update pertaining to RESTful CSS, a method for organizing CSS I wrote a little while ago.
I’m out in Wisconsin for the month of April working in the Sevenwire office, and getting a lot done. Including getting very close to launching Roommate App. Just cleaning some things up, and tying up some loose ends, though it feels like I’ve been doing that forever now.
Just following up on my own internal discussion from last night about my ActiveForm javascript library.
I’m writing this post mainly to think through a javascript library I’m working on.
I’ve taken a lot of inspiration for Roommate App from awesome apps like Blinksale and Basecamp. One feature of those apps that I hadn’t followed was creating personalized subdomains for each account. Examples would be “myaccount.blinksale.com”, or “myaccount.basecamphq.com”.
It seems like anytime I start work on another part of my Rails app, I have to spend a long time fixing something else that’s not working. Mostly because I have no clue what’s going on within the Rails framework, and half the time I spend digging around to find the source of the error. [...]
Well, obviously I didn’t get nearly as far as originally planned at this point, but it’s picking up momentum. Today Nate upgraded Rails and a lot of the plugins, and then helped me optimize my code a little. A big thanks to him. I also got this blog switched over from Movable Type to Word [...]