Finally, anonimity.net is live. I have been awake all night and its now that I realize its been quite a few hours over time. Feels like i am going to fall down. Don’t know why I started feeling drowsy after my last commit and ‘cap deploy’. Not strange right?

So, junta here it is >> anonymity.net !!! Let me know your feedback here.

Here is the first glimpse only for the people tracking this devlog:

http://anonimity.net/web/pages/philosophy

Hows it?

So, now you know why to track this blog

Still a lot of this to crack. The deployment took much longer than expected. People on IRC were helpful all the time but even then it was a pain. Even something like ‘libopenssl-ruby’ can use up hours without giving you a clue. Know the difference between:

gem ‘xxx’

require_gem ‘xxx’

require ‘xxx’

I have figured out the harder way

Got up around 10:30 am. I just tried the deploy thing again and it worked. This is what good sleep can do to you ;). So, I have my first successful deploy with ruby, rails, nginx, mysql5, mongrel cluster and some love. There is a good screen cast for deploying your rails app in this setup at smartic.us. I couldn’t have done without it.

Gotta finish the UI quickly so that things get back on track .

The countdown has begun… less than 20 hours to go now.

Yeah, havent slept yet. Got stuck with the deployment. Its still hung Couldn’t work much on the design too because of the deployment. Lets see how things go once I get up. Tomorrow have another issue to tackle. My Internet connection is going to expire on the 9th (now, today). Cable guy has promised thre wouldn’t be any interruption.

Amen.

Me not sleeping. Just stuck with the installation and design. Doing it side-by-side. Its not going smooth though. The installation is not straight forward and doing the mockups in photoshop is taking time. (**)>>

1. Dinner
   Have something light for dinner.
2. Tomorrow’s lunch
   Get something for tomorrow’s lunch as it would save valuable time.

(Sorry, but none of this exists in the product backlog :p)

Expected time: 45 mins (wow, thats fast

1. Track posts (automatically)*
   When a user posts or comments we automatically put the post in track
2. Track/Untrack posts (deliberately)*
   A user can manually track/untrack a post

Expected time: 1 hour (Too short, but have to go out for dinner. Lets see.)
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1. Create post
   A user can create a post.
   Tag the post appropriately. (acts_as_taggable gem)
2. Comment
   A user can comment on a post.
3. View single post with all the comments
4. View all the postsUpdate:
5. View posts by a tag.

Expected Time: 2 hours + Update

1. about/philosophy/faq…
   Create a knowledgebase (mini-site) for some articles/pages to explain the concept to the user.
2. signup
   A user can sign-up for the service by just entering the password. The user should be shown a unique ID which he can use to log-in to the system.
3. login
   The user can login using the ID and password.
4. login helper methods
   Some view/controller helper methods to check whether the user has logged-in. Would be needed by other methods.
5. logout
   The user should be able to log out of the system anytime.

   Update:

6. integrate reCaptcha for signup
   User the recaptcha gem to piss-off bots

Expected time: 3hours.

Amen

Some of the obvious tasks. Will be update as needed.

- Create post*
- Tag post
- Add comment*
- View post
- View all posts
- View posts tagged by a particular tag
- Track/follow posts (automatically)*
- Track/follow posts (deliberately)*
- Tag-cloud
- Signup
- Logout
- Login
- View tracked posts*
- Random posts/ Discovery*
- Interesting posts*
- Integrate with layouts
- Create crude base layouts
- Ajaxify stuff
- Design/Mockup/Look&feel
- Knowledgebase (_almost_ static pages about/concept/philosophy/…)

Update:

- integrate reCaptcha for signup

* Needs special check when the user is signedup