Simpltry

This weekend I competed in [Rails Rumble](http://railsrumble.com/ “Rails Rumble September 8-9, 2007″). It was a lot of fun. I built a community editable map to enter happy hours. Sort of like a wiki, only in map form. It is a *little* rough, because I only had 48 hours to build it.

Not only did I only have 48 hours to build it, I also had to play system administrator. Which meant learning the following things, mod_proxy, mod_proxy_balancer, mongrel_cluster, capistrano and several other technologies. Learning these things was worth the sacrificed weekend on its own.

I was also able to use my open source js project, [http://widgets.simpltry.com/](http://widgets.simpltry.com/ “Simpltry Javascript Widgets”). And dust off my [Google Maps API](http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ “Google Maps API”) and [Google AJAX Search API](http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/ “Google AJAX Search API”) skills.

All in all I am extremely excited to present. [Happy Hour](http://happyhour.railsrumble.com)! My entry into rails rumble. This competition is judged by “the community”, which means that it is a popularity contest. So [go vote](http://vote.railsrumble.com/ “Rails Rumble 2007″) for the best app.

I am happy to note that I didn’t spend one second in Internet Explorer. And it is working!

One more thing, the I used a rails plugin called [geokit](http://geokit.rubyforge.org/ “GeoKit for Rails: home”), it worked so seamlessly out of the box that I almost fell over.

Good luck to all who have built an application.