So how much of a Community-driven Website could you build in 20 hours, once you’ve got a good feel for the framework? That’s my February Grails challenge…
I reckon I can find about 5 hours of “project” time a week (think wife/kids/dog/dayjob/uni/health - so 5 hours might be optimistic). I’m really keen to see what I could build in that timeframe over the course of February that would be useful to the Groovy and Grails community (you’ll also be able to download the src to as a good little sample app for learning when I’m done).
I’m going to use Slimtimer to keep my hours honest and get some good non-fudged metrics on my own productivity. I’m also going to be reusing code from my other Grails apps (it’s not cheating - you would too :-).
The plan is to have a crack at building a blog aggregator - a simple automated aggregator of Groovy and Grails related blogs in the same style as javablogs.com.
Not sure there are quite Groovy and Grails bloggers yet for a “hot entries” page, but we’ll work that all out as we go. I’m planning to post up grabs of my progress here once a week, so people can see just how much you can build in your spare time. Here’s how far I’ve got so far :-)
