Today I was reading an article by Paul Graham on How Not to Die. The basic premise is that if your startup doesn’t die, you’ll get rich. And the main indication of a dying startup is a lack of communication. No update in a couple months? Bad. No response to emails? Really bad.
I hadn’t updated my blog in more than a week and as I mentioned a while back blogging is one of the ways I keep myself motivated. Thus, not updating my blog is a red flag to myself. Thankfully I’ve made a fair bit of progress lately. I took a few hours on Saturday and hammered on the site at an undisclosed location (makes me wish Jailbreak Omaha were around… (it’s the end of summer guys, where are you?! 
). They were the most productive hours I can remember in recent history, and I plan to do it again.
Progress wise I’m almost back to where I was before I switched from PHP to Ruby on Rails. It’s hard to tell if I’m quicker in RoR than I am in PHP because I’m reusing a lot of the logic/decisions from the first time, but if I had to take a guess I’m say I’m moving quicker. I’m definitely writing a lot less code and things just seem to make more sense. I can see where CodeIgniter was pulling concepts from Rails (and they do a good job of it), but the PHP/CodeIgniter combination seems a lot more clunky than Ruby/Rails.
Anyway, given another weekend or so I think I’ll have completed everything I had in PHP and will be moving on to new and better things. Next up on the docket is building the view and edit profile pages which should be fairly straightforward (*knock on wood*).
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