Finally something to work on

posted 25 Jan 2010

Months ago, I became inspired by Giles Bowkett’s idea of doing a miniapp a month. He made a very cool app to read Hacker News in the format of a traditional newspaper.

I am always in the process of developing my skills, so I thought the concept of using miniapp development was awesome. I can come up with an idea for a simple app, then start working on it. I’m not prolific enough to do one per month, but I figure something is better than nothing.

Recently, I’ve become obsessed with learning more and more about MongoDB. After reading scads of articles on MongoDB and mongomapper on John Nunemaker’s blog I decided I just have to wrap my head around MongoDB and figure out if it is something that is valuable to me.

Having trouble as I usually do trying to figure out what miniapp to work on next, I think I’ve finally come up with something that I can work on that will snuggle up with MongoDB nicely. I don’t want to get into what it is just yet. If I did and found out I was out of my depth I’d feel like a total nozzle. So hopefully you can watch this space and see what I come up with.

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