musings

I haven’t written the last week, and I guess the suspense is killing all 3 of you, that read this blog. On day 4 (the day before [Cruise](https://twur.li>twur.li was going to be written) I set up the continuous integration and deployment server. My goal was to use <a href=) instead of cc.rb, but after much fiddling with XML configuration files and Rake tasks, I gave up and returned to cc.rb. It works, is relatively easy to set up and suits our needs fine. ...

Today was spent setting up infrastructure. Part of this sprint is to learn new things, so we took the opportunity to play around with some of the new features of Rails 2.3. The best thing so far is the templating system, that allows you to define which gems, plugins and other files for your rails app. See below for the template we developed. It’s based on the Rails Template Post by Pratik Naik. ...

Not much news today. Most of the day was spent on client work. I had the fun task of calming down everyones nerves - there are still two deadlines to meet this week, before we can fully embark on building the Twitter app that I need for my day to day work. I thought about features and design while on the train today and had tons of ideas. I think I have pared them down enough to actually being able to deliver something on friday. ...

A new web site, that we developed launched today: ZermattSoundz.ch, the companion site to Europe’s highest open-air concert, April 18/19. It features Eisblume, Ich + Ich, Materia and Die Fantastischen 4. It was designed by our partners Création and developed with Radiant on Ruby on Rails. Well done, team!

The last few months have been furious. Not only have we moved to the new offices, but Keith Bingman has joined us as on a regular basis, and Andrea Szabo is our intern for the next 18 months, while she’s becoming an application developer. Quite a few projects have been made, a new website is on it’s way. We’ve had a lot of client work and more is yet to come, but we thought, it might be fun to do something for ourselves for a change. ...

We have been moving our clients websites to our own co-located server over the last few weeks and have had mostly good experiences doing so. Yesterday however, there was trouble in InVisible hosting land, and we had a couple of hours downtime on one of the websites (of course the one with the most traffic…) So - here’s a short post-mortem and the things we did to keep this from happening in the future… ...