Well, the holidays filled up time that I would have spent working on my rspec blogging. I haven't forgotten, though. I'm going to be continuing the rspec-lunking series, as well as my quest to read lots and lots of Ruby code. Along the way, though, I'm writing a small rails app to keep track of my entertainment book savings. I did it in javascript and blogger a few years ago, and I got a lot of value out of it: I was able to track how much I had saved; I was stimulated to try new places; and, more importantly, I felt the positive feedback of how much I was savings caused me to use it more. So, I figured I'd start work on this application. I got an account on Heroku, so I have a place to upload my rails apps. I'm not 100% sure what level I'll go blogging it, but I'll definitely track my experiences in one form or another.

The general idea for the application is to keep track of coupon usages. I would also like to have a rating engine of some sort in it, so I can give a small review and a rate to restaurants/services I discover. Eventually, it would be cool if I could make it multi-user application.

Along with that, I want to track the amount saved each time, as well as a running total. Eventually, categories would be cool, so I could get more fine-grained subtotals.

Where to start? Well, I guess at the beginning.