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Renaissance Fudge

November 17th, 2007

Or as some would say, “Fudge Renaissance”

I’ve just finished a month-long project to build a website for a colleague of mine and his wife to sell fudge! Check it out here: Renaissance Fudge Company

It was pretty time consuming, as I decided to write it in Rails (with zero Rails experience, although I had been working with Ruby already). And I had no CSS experience, or really any web development experience to speak of, nor am I good at visual design, heck I didn’t even know how to take full advantage of TextMate, my editor… Actually I felt a little bad taking the job because of all that, but I’m in a bit of a rut at work (PL/SQL wears very thin after a few solid years of it), so it was really good to learn some new skills.

My violin practicing got cut pretty much completely — I would work for 8 hours at my main job (instead of my usual 9 or 10!), then come home and work on the site until midnight, plus a few solid weekends. But the site went live today! And my customer was happy, and even paid me! It’s kind of funny that I get all excited about this given that I’ve been a professional developer for 8 years, but it was really good to have a change of pace. And a new and shiny technology. And Rails is pretty darn cool.

Fudge. It’s what’s for breakfast! (and lunch and dinner.) Eat more fudge!

(Actually, I haven’t even tried the fudge, given my severe food allergies. I’m going to work with them and figure out what flavors are safe for me to eat. But I’m sure it’s good!)

Tagged: fudge, pl/sql, Rails, TextMate, web-development