A Slippery Start then Traction on Rails

Rain, rain , rain - record-typing number of rain days in March, still sheets of rain every day here and up in Bonny Donn. Walking the dog in drizzle, on slippery trails.

Monday I went in for a when-you're-50 test - no big deal, but the preparation requires you fast 24 hrs and drink phospho-soda ... that stuff is nasty! Then on Tuesday I met a fellow over at Los Gatos Brew Club to talk about AVidence; not only a fun conversation, but he bought dinner and beer - can't beat that!

I guess the week is balanced so far ....

Anyway, today I decided to use "Ruby on Rails" for the video-workflow project I'm doing, so I started learning-by-prototyping. It's mainly straightforward, although "convention over configuration" means I spend a lot of time wondering what's convention, what's explicit interface - and, I don't usually like to hold a lot of arbitrary stuff with unstated dependencies (conventions!) in my head. Dunno yet if I'll like this.

But, by the end of the day I have the tools mostly installed, and the simple data-driven website up and tied to a MySQL DB, so that's pretty good. Next I need to hook up something a tagging mechanism, and then tie it all to a Faceted Navigation backend, rather than an RDB. That will be a bit trickier :)

Even if the overall vidqlips-workflow idea doesn't pan out, this is good technology exposure.