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"If I’d played around with every piece of technology I should be using whether I felt like it or not, I’d never have got anywhere." I feel like this all the ti
by zipdog 16y ago
"If I’d played around with every piece of technology I should be using whether I felt like it or not, I’d never have got anywhere."
I feel like this all the time. Sometimes it's better to do a less-great job in a language you know backwards and skip the learning curve of a new tech.
The site works really well btw: after entering a handful of my favs it took my a while to get through all the games I already like to find new ones - so it's doing something right :)
Thanks for the interesting read.
- moconnor 16y agoGreat, I'm glad to hear it's proving useful! I'll do a follow up with how well my NoDB implementation stood up to the pounding it's getting at the moment later in the week...
- thirdstation 16y ago"Take that, NoSQL guys! I’m NoEverything!" I actually LOL'd when I read that. Which is kind of embarrassing since it's really quiet in the office today :-) Great post. I get analysis paralysis all the time when I think of new web apps. The idea that I won't have the perfectly scalable architecture (horizontally AND vertically) with all the cool infrastructure is enough to overwhelm. That's because I also skip to the scenario of "What if my app gets real popular and then starts crashing all the time, and then everyone stops visiting while I try to learn how to set up nginx with memcached and ... ad nauseam." Sometimes it gets me stuck and sometimes I remember to take baby steps like you wrote about.
- theycallmemorty 16y agoHere's a feature suggestion for you from a fellow BGGer: Allow users to restrict the search to games from with specific amounts of players.
- moconnor 16y agoYeah, #players and playingtime are both on my list of things to optionally filter. Just need to find a nice way to do it without complicating the initial user experience.
- jdp23 16y agoVery useful -- excellent post and looking forward to the followup!