CrudVision - Lisa Seelye

Yesterday we launched Mini Match, an application me and my colleagues from work wrote for Cartoon Network.

Late last year we opened a beta that was, unfortunately, short lived. Friday (May 30, 2008) we opened the system up on a much improved codebase for a few hours and had all systems “green”. Based on the positive success from Friday we opened it up yesterday.

It opened slowly at first with just a small advertisement on the Cartoon Network Games’ Page, and then a larger one on the same page and then we made the Cartoon Network home page with a small advertisement again. Today, I reckon, a larger advertisement will be put on the front page and we’ll really start to see traffic!

Some details on the application:

• Flash/Flex/AS/Whatever front-end GUI (really, it’s one of them)
• Java-based persistance server
• Rails-based funnel into the database with a bit of logic.

The Rails part is RESTful (for the most part) and is the “glue” of the application, to quote someone from IRC.

Today should be a fun day!

This coming Monday I’m flying off to Atlanta, Georgia for the week. Not keen on going as Atlanta is like descending into the armpit of summer. I’m hoping that the weather co-operates and I don’t melt.

I’m flying down there for work, we’re beta launching a product for a customer (that’s based in Atlanta - go figure) and they (the customer) have requested a contingent of us from work be on site for the release. So it’s me and two others from the UK.

We’re down on Monday then flying back home on Friday evening - I’m hoping to be in bed by midnight (landing 22:05 - 30 minute taxi home, getting bags and immigration and such). A SysAdmin that works for our customer suggested Zuma sushi bar to me for sushi. I like sushi a lot and hope to stop in for some glorious sushi.