Russell Beattie, posted something about short domain names, which prompted me to go on a quest.

Low and behold, Noqr.com is what I found, along with a few alternates (.net, .biz, etc.), and Nokr.net

It took me awhile to think of an appropriate project for the domain. But it finally came to me, and I am going to document the process of bringing it to life over the next 9 days.

The tools at hand:

• Ruby on Rails
• Lighttpd
• MySQL
• TextMate
• CSSEdit
• Fireworks
• Paypal
• Mac Mini
• Trusty Powerbook

The goal:

• Deploy the application in 10 days.

Today’s accomplishments:

• Designed the database schema
• Created Rails skeleton (with plugins)
• Chose color scheme for interface
• Committed initial code to Subversion repository

Total time spent, including this entry:

• 3 1/2 hours

Tomorrow:

• Design the interface (HTML, CSS and Images)

Good night.