So, we arrived in San Francisco yesterday after a hell of flight. I have a recommendation that needs to be put up on TouristR, but here it is. Don't fly with Aer Lingus, on long haul destinations. It is a joke. The in-flight entertainment is ridiculous. I have never come across anything more antiquated in my life. There is one screen per 10-15 people. This is further compounded by the fact that the movies and various programs being shown where awful. Only one out of the three movies shown could have been described as palatable.
Being fair to Aer Lingus I have been told that Delta, Continental etc... are also as bad, but that is still no reason for mediocrity. We are an Irish group traveling to San Francisco trying to represent our country, and therefore chose the national Irish carrier to haul our bodies over on. As a result of this semi-patriotic act, most in the group were climbing the walls.
As a way of giving an example of better service on a long haul route, I give you Ethihad. They are national airline of the UAE. I had the absolute pleasure of using Ethihad on a recent long haul flight to Thailand. They are an exceptional airline. Their staff are wonderful like the Aer Lingus staff, however where this is the crowning achievement with Aer Lingus it is only the start for Ethihad. Each customer whether economy or higher has a personal entertainment system on the sit in front of them. This gives you access to about 100 new movies of your choice, many well known TV shows from around the world, and a collection of about 50 music albums that you can listen to on demand. They also score higher on the food side of things, but there is a negligible difference in this area.
One last thing on Aer Lingus, where did you get the ridiculous early 80's "Walkman" headphones?
Hopefully I will continue to blog on this trip. Fingers crossed I will have some exciting things to report on.
Argh!
IT has finally been decided that we are going to go with Rails. I am happy with this decision. Through our work on Touristr.com we have become very comfortable with Rails as a development platform. As we are trying to bootstrap this development, one of the key factors affecting our choice was our budget. As it is currently hovering around 0 it really tightened up our options. The fact that we have 2 developers able and willing to work on this in their spare time pretty much clinched it. So Ruby on Rails it is, hopefully coming to "the Internets" near you.
So, I am currently developing a website, that is similar in concept to Pownce, but attempts to give its users a platform to share, and comment on sports news and highlights. We are kinda bootstrapping this development, as we are not currently in a position to shell out for huge development costs.
In the next week we really need to make a few decisions regarding the future of our little web app bench'd. The main decision is what platform should we build our website on. I personally have used Rails and PHP, with Django currently turning my head. I get distracted very easily really. I want to pose a question to anyone who may read this. What is your opinion?
PHP will cheap, I have a good level of experience with it, and therefore can contribute more then just the design. However, Ruby on Rails, and Django, will help us hit our deadlines better (only my opinion), but will no doubt incur higher development costs. Please share your thoughts below.
So, I have been playing around with movable type 4 for the past 3 evenings, and I really like what they have done. I have started customising the design as you can see here. However, I am so busy lately that I haven't had a chance to do the really nitty gritty stuff.
This blog is partly due to the fact that I realised last week while attending the FOWA road trip in Edinburgh, and Dublin that I need to get of my ass and get my site finished. I started this site one night in June when I couldn't sleep, and finished the design 3 hours later (hence why it is so crap, and hates IE6 users), after that development stagnated dramatically! So over the next few weeks I continue to upgrade the blog while still trying my best to blog frequently.
In traditional technology nerd style this is my first post. So hello world.
