Technical story? Well here it is: "I ported this small, simple band site from PHP to Rails in a day. My co-developers (this site has more than one?!) didn't understand at first but I brought them round".
I don't get this site Muxtape.com. I've seen it mentioned here a few times but I don't understand why it's "favoured".
It looks like a super-simple site where a few bands have uploaded some pictures and a couple of songs, which can be played by a flash player. Well, that's neat and all, I like the minimalist design, and mootools rocks, but, you know .. and?
I kept looking for some kind of advanced functionality. Since the domain name kind of sounds like "mixtape" I was clicking on the songs and trying to, you know, mix them. Nope - one at a time. Right. So where's the beef?
The guy says he ported to Ruby in one day, and I can believe that, since the DB design was already done and it looks like most of the work is in the layout and JS which could be just copied over into Rails.
So, can anyone enlighten me as to how this site, while nice for what it is, is special in some way such that "hackers" would care about its implementation especially?
I don't get this site Muxtape.com. I've seen it mentioned here a few times but I don't understand why it's "favoured".
It looks like a super-simple site where a few bands have uploaded some pictures and a couple of songs, which can be played by a flash player. Well, that's neat and all, I like the minimalist design, and mootools rocks, but, you know .. and?
I kept looking for some kind of advanced functionality. Since the domain name kind of sounds like "mixtape" I was clicking on the songs and trying to, you know, mix them. Nope - one at a time. Right. So where's the beef?
The guy says he ported to Ruby in one day, and I can believe that, since the DB design was already done and it looks like most of the work is in the layout and JS which could be just copied over into Rails.
So, can anyone enlighten me as to how this site, while nice for what it is, is special in some way such that "hackers" would care about its implementation especially?