Baby Steps

Now that I have some experience with Ruby on Rails (by experience I think I know enough that I can do the things I want to do) I decided to actually register a domain name and get me a little site host. Hopefully this will give me a little kick in the butt.

I've been pondering over the name for my site for some time. When I was in class and bored, I'd pull out one of my notebooks and jot down as many names and variations I could find. The main obstacle I faced was the fact that I had to chose a name that wasn't taken, because I was not going to pay hundreds of dollars to buy a domain off some kid. To solve this I thought the best bet would be to combine two words to create a new name. My second obstacle was creating a name that can be remembered easily. I noticed that most popular sites have two-syllable names: Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Slashdot, it goes on and on. So my best bet would be to pick a name with two syllables.

After some soul searching, I came up with a good name in my opinion. Then, I officially started the funding of my start up by paying GoDaddy for the domain registration fee. It's the first domain I've ever bought, so I savored the moment. After chosing the name, I came across this article on picking a name and was pretty happy that the name I chose followed some of the guidelines outlined.

And now for a host... In hindsight, I probably should have done more research for this. I ended up choosing TextDrive, but this was mainly because I knew how closely tied they were to the Ruby on Rails movement. The setup to run Ruby on Rails on their servers was definitely tougher than what I expected considering how RoR friendly they appear. But no biggee, I was up and running in no time.

The initial release should be coming soon. It's just these pesky classes that are int the way.