OMA: One Month App

Technical Update

The application itself is coming along nicely. As always, it has been quite a struggle to focus on a venture of our own while maintaining client projects. Nate has not been able to work on this project as much as any of us would like, however he is giving great input and he will be able to focus on some of the marketing efforts after the month is up.

I generally start a new Rails project with just enough in there for Aaron to be able to mock up each of the screens. This means that after I completed my database design I moved right into stubbing out the application framework even further with my new models and test data. After that I decided to tackle the users/account and authentication first. Although most design is done prior to programming, Aaron typically styles the login, signup and related screens after this is in place.

I am currently completing the main cash flow or "worksheet" screen. I will be adding the Basecamp integration next and then I will finish out some of the smaller supporting screens.

In my next update I will be discussing some of the tools and technologies that we are using for this application.