A couple of tech decisions - ROR and S3
Just a couple of quick items. I’ve been moving along building out iPresent Online, and I wanted to quickly mention a couple of of interesting items from a technical perspective. After careful consideration (too much actually), I’ve decided to build iPresent Online on top of the Ruby on Rails framework. Personally, I do not subscribe very much to the programming language/platform wars that fly across the blogosphere on a daily basis. When choosing a platform, what matters most is: 1) selecting “the right tool for the job” AND 2) what’s makes the most sense for your business. Along those same lines I’ve also chosen to integrate with Amazon’s S3 storage service as the primary repository for published Presio presentations.
Thus far, building on top of Rails and integrating with the S3 API has been going fairly smoothly and I am pleased by the progress to date. In the future, I may post more on some of the reasons why I chose these respective platforms and my short list of other technologies considered (if anyone is interested). At the end of the day, customers only care that the software solves their problems and could care less as to what the underlying technology is. The selection of these 2 platforms will hopefully allow me to achieve that end.
