I have an idea for a social networking site. It is pretty niche oriented and would be fun for me to participate in if it existed. Based on another blog that I write, I can assume that I could get around 20 people to test it without any problem.
Unfortunately, despite working as a programmer in my day job, I don’t do any web development. Most of the actual programming that I do is Unix scripting.
I always mean to get around to learning some of the neat web stuff. I always hear about Ruby on Rails, AJAX, etc, but have never even done a “Hello World” with anything more complex than JavaScript.
I thought about seeing if anybody would be interested in working on it as a portfolio builder type of project. I doubt it would be very difficult for somebody that knows what they are doing.
In the end, I decided that I should force myself to write it. But, with the amount of free time that I have to spend on the project, that means it might be finished by 2010 and by then we will probably all be done with the social networking thing and have moved on to something else.
I’ll have to take the kids to the library someday soon and see if there are any good books on web development there to inspire me.
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