Websites are Hard to Build
"It's just a small site, how hard can it be?"
"I thought you could do it for me as a favour. It's not a complicated site."
"This would take me an afternoon, but I don't have time, can you do it for me?"
Have you ever heard these comments before? Have you heard ones that are similar? I've been hearing them a lot in the last few weeks and it's starting to get to me.
I have just had a chat with a mate who is also suffering this pain, and that conversation is what inspired me to write this, the first random rant in a while.
Web Application Development with Merb, MySQL and Tiny
I've been thinking about building a web application or two for a while, but I haven't yet found the time to invest. I don't think this is going to change very soon either. I'm not the kind of person who usually likes to get stuck into something unless I know I've got a couple of hours up my sleeve so that I feel I can get something done, and this has been preventing me from doing anything because I don't ever feel like I have a couple of hours spare. Having a child means that you could have as little as 5 minutes before all hell breaks loose.
Instead of whinging about it, I've decided to go against my usual grain and take those 5 minute chunks as a chance to do something. This is the first step 