Building a Web 2.0 Website

May 25, 2006 on 11:17 pm | In Entrepreneur |

I’ve just read Using the Web2.0 Bandwagon to Jumpstart a Real Site and it really struck a chord for me.

If you are considering, or are currently, building a Web 2.0 App, then I recommend that you go and read it now.

I have a Wep 2.0 App that I will be building with a business partner in the near future. I’m not going to tell you what it is or what it is about though cos it’s going to be really successful and I’m goint to retire to Takapuna Beach on the profits :). Nick Wilsons post at Performancing could not have come at a better time for me.

I hate to see people make mistakes, and I can’t begin to imagine how it must feel to have people posting negative comments about your hot new website at TechCrunch. However, I’ve got to agree with whats being said.

I reckon that Winelog.com need to get on the case and have their website fixed up while it is still in its early stage. Good luck to them.

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Hi Dom,

I’ve gotten involved in Ruby on Rails lately and if you want to build web sites quickly, then I would recommend RoR. I can build a E-commerce site like Amazon in a day, granted not as flash as Amazon, but most of the nuts and bolts and looking not to shabby.

I would say that you could build web sites with RoR in probably 10-20% of the time it would take to build the same site in C# or Java. It is really a awesome language and web framework.

Check out Ruby on Rails if you are interested.

Cheers,
Maruis

Comment by Maruis Marais — May 25, 2006 #
Hi Maruis,
I’m keen to take a look at RoR. I took a look at it briefly about 6 months ago, but became distracted by the set up procedures and went no further.

My webhosting supports RoR so I should probably take another look at it. I’m definitely keen on knocking out a Web 2.0 app ASAP.

I noticed on your blog that you are currently reading Code Complete. Is it any good?

cheers
Dom

Comment by Dominic — May 29, 2006 #
Code Complete is a good book, but I found the book takes to long to make the point on each topic (To much fluff). This leads to a book that is thick and heavy. But it does cover a lot of good topics.

I’ve read “Agile Web Development with Rails” from the pragmatic programmers fame. What a nice book… The cool thing about RoR is that I could knock out a web site looking like the pragmatic site within 2 hours on a friday night. That is installing (RoR, MySql, RadRails), setup and coding. Cool hey…

My next mission is to build a blog site in RoR. I want to replace my current blog and have some nice idea’s I want to implement.

Cheers,
Maruis

Comment by Maruis Marais — May 31, 2006 #