Completehero.com

So I just heard back from Completehero.com regarding a letter I sent them about maybe piggy-backing on their site. Unfortunately, they can't host user-submitted content, however, they say they'll happily work out some sort of cross linking.

This, however, means I'll need to either work on some design or find someone else who will. I'll also need to buy some hosting - which as far as I can tell for something that'll support a rails application is like 10 bucks a month.

It's also a damn good excuse to get my own web hosting, which I've been threatening to do for a good while now anyway. It'd be a good place to host the little scraps of code that I've written, as well as a CV. I'll have to buy some space later on this week, and do some design work in studio.

Speaking of studio, I've managed to get the first 'iteration' of the website done: a system that allows user-submitted posts, comments, and gives each tag a random x, y value. Total time invested: 1 Hour, 10 minutes. And most of that was looking for documentation. Goddamn, I love Rails.

The next system is going to be something stupid easy: implementing the LSI libraries to try to parse the text and tag it. The easiest way, I think, is going to be to create another model for 'tags' that's just a set of binary flags... then hook the baynes filter to it and make a category for each character trait of a hero. I'll probably end up hacking apart the code so that it replaces references to flat files to a database query - the problem is, I don't want to hammer my database 50 fucking times for each post. I'll get the chance to hold off on that until I actually crack into the source and figure out how it works.