The idea for a site like LRPevents.com has been bubbling away in the back of my head for over ten years! So this weekend, I finally took the plunge, grabbed a domain and hosting at one.com (an excellent, cheap hosting service btw. I wholeheartedly recommend them!) and uploaded the first code to make it all happen.
I'm following the Agile Development practice of release early, release often which ideal for a project like LRPevents.com. It means:
- You get a working site up quickly and start to get the valuable feedback from your users
- You can incrementally implement new features and fix bugs without a long delay.
- You can react quickly to new feature requests from your users.
The website is a CakePHP / jQuery application with a MySQL backend. Everything has been produced using open source tools and technologies. This isn't for any moral reasons, it's the simple fact they are the best tools available.
Currently the site is live with a tiny subset of what I have planned for it but there's enough there already for it to be useful. I've outlined a few of the ideas I have planned in a beta announcement news item on LRPevents.com so I wont repeat them here.
Ideally, I'd love for the site to take off and to generate enough money to cover its costs (and buy me a beer or two), but for now I'm just happy to finally see it up and running :-)
(note: Right now, the site is down. Having spoken to the nice people at one.com it seems PHP is broken but they are fixing it...)
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