A couple months ago I finished up a Ruby on Rails course at Sierra College in Roseville, California. I’m usually a learn-it-on-my-own kind of guy, but being constantly busy but still wanting to _finally_ get my feet wet with Ruby, I figured registering for the course and having assignments, etc. would force me to stay focused on the task. My final project for the course was a basic version of what is now Hacker News Notify, this past weekend I was able to put some polish on it and get it to a point where real users could actually use the application.
Hacker News Notify (http://hnnotify.com/) periodically scans the “New Links” of Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/newest) and matches submissions with a particular phrase in the title, submitted by a particular user, or from a particular domain. Users can either choose to be notified of matches by email or by subscribing to their watchlist’s RSS feed.
In any case, I plan on submitting the project to Hacker News for review tomorrow morning; hopefully a few people find the application useful.
Check out Hacker News Notify!
A couple months ago I finished up a Ruby on Rails course at Sierra College in Roseville, California. I’m usually a learn-it-on-my-own kind of guy, but being constantly busy but still wanting to _finally_ get my feet wet with Ruby, I figured registering for the course and having assignments, etc. would force me to stay focused on the task. My final project for the course was a basic version of what is now Hacker News Notify, this past weekend I was able to put some polish on it and get it to a point where real users could actually use the application.
Hacker News Notify (http://hnnotify.com/) periodically scans the “New Links” of Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/newest) and matches submissions with a particular phrase in the title, submitted by a particular user, or from a particular domain. Users can either choose to be notified of matches by email or by subscribing to their watchlist’s RSS feed.
In any case, I plan on submitting the project to Hacker News for review tomorrow morning; hopefully a few people find the application useful.