I have recently relaunched http://www.wakeboard.com as 'WDC - the wake as it happens'... showing 24/7 tweets, results, riders.
This is a tweet/fb/news aggregation engine that also hooks into my wakeboard competition database of results, rider performance etc. The plan is to merge the metadata we have on competitions and riders into the publicly available tweet/fb content that is steadily being posted during the day. I've been using the site myself to keep up with what the top riders are up to and it's great to see a rider post about a comp, then see whether they won the comp the previous year. There's more to come as usual, just need to find an awesome data entry helper ;-)
The latest dev and hosting tech underpinning the site includes:
Hosting: Heroku (cloud based rails platform), Xeround (cloud based mysql database), NewRelic (monitoring), StillAlive.com (testing and monitoring)
Dev Tools: Macbook Pro laptop on OS X Lion, Rubymine Rails IDE, Git, Unfuddle
To keep me going: Jura Impressa C5 coffee machine, Sonos music system
Developing with the above setup is truly fun and it's impressive what you can achieve on the train nowadays with the right kit.
This is a tweet/fb/news aggregation engine that also hooks into my wakeboard competition database of results, rider performance etc. The plan is to merge the metadata we have on competitions and riders into the publicly available tweet/fb content that is steadily being posted during the day. I've been using the site myself to keep up with what the top riders are up to and it's great to see a rider post about a comp, then see whether they won the comp the previous year. There's more to come as usual, just need to find an awesome data entry helper ;-)
The latest dev and hosting tech underpinning the site includes:
Hosting: Heroku (cloud based rails platform), Xeround (cloud based mysql database), NewRelic (monitoring), StillAlive.com (testing and monitoring)
Dev Tools: Macbook Pro laptop on OS X Lion, Rubymine Rails IDE, Git, Unfuddle
To keep me going: Jura Impressa C5 coffee machine, Sonos music system
Developing with the above setup is truly fun and it's impressive what you can achieve on the train nowadays with the right kit.
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