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I have just set up a Dreamhost account to host some Ruby on Rails apps. I have been buying VPS accounts left right & center to see if I can get some decent budget performance and have found them all to be useless, so this is pretty much my last resort.

Thankfully I found out about their referral scheme – so you can sign up for monthly payments and not have to pay the setup fee – if you want to give them a go, click on the link above and use ‘keeran’ as your promo code – I’ll get a bit of credit in my account and you’ll save the setup fee :)

Once I get an app up and running there (hopefully later on today), I’ll post here with performance details and a link, so you can check it out for yourselves…if anyone really cares ;)

Today I was on the verge of hacking together my own helper for a datetime_select, because my Event date selector in GuildAssist was presenting every single minute as an option – quite a waste as most events start on the hour, or on the half hour.

Before I started work on it, I thought it would be a good idea to look through the Rails source to see what options were available for the existing helper – I couldn’t find anything in the API and my googlefu wasn’t strong enough to turn out this gem:

Found by trawling through rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/date_helper.rb

Nice and elegant, as we’d expect from Rails, and now my events can start/finish in 15 minute intervals.

...I babbled some rubbish about how some big idea needed to start with a post.

Well, like a lot of my ideas, I thought the whole thing through to its conclusion and decided it wasn’t worth the effort. So I might as well write about what I thought could happen.

Basically I wanted to run an experiment merging marketing, reality entertainment and blogging, with the whole thing starting by gathering traffic…to a blog site like this…I would blog about the experiment, some people might be interested in it, traffic grows, experiment progresses…and I end up with some momentum going in any direction I, or the voting audience, choose to take.

Anyways, I’ve canned that now, and I was fed up with that post hanging there and nothing to follow it up. There is, however, a much more realistic project on the horizon. I have started developing a gaming management application, primarily to help out with my World of Warcraft guild, but ultimately something I hope to launch as a ‘public’ service (to the 5.5million WoW players to begin with;).

Screenshots etc will be up on it’s own shiny site soon :)

Kee