"Matt":http://guitsaru.com and I made it through "Rails Rumble":http://railsrumble.com this weekend and actually finished what we planned on finishing.

From the Rails Rumble site:

bq. "The Rails Rumble is a 48 hour web application development competition. As a contestant, you get one weekend to design, develop, and deploy the best web property that you can, using the awesome power of Ruby on Rails."

I actually really like what we came up with more than I thought I would. Don't consider this an official introduction, but this weekend Matt and I created "RedMinutes":http://redminutes.com, a web app for sharing notes.

Think of it as a "Pastie":http://pastie.org/ or "Writeboard":http://www.writeboard.com/ type of service that splits notes up into sections for reading and commenting. It will take plain old text or "Textile":http://hobix.com/textile/ markup and generate a pretty little rainbow of colorful sections.

I've posted this blog entry[1] as a "RedMinutes demo note":http://redminutes.com/notes/demo so you can see what the functionality is like without having to come up with some text. The password is *demo*.

Please "register to be a judge":http://railsrumble.com and vote for us if you like RedMinutes, but be sure to check out all the other great contest entries. The contest just ended and judging starts soon.

I heavily enjoyed developing this with Matt. Of course, he handled all the complicated stuff that actually makes everything work and I just pretended I knew how to design something. My greatest joy in this project was a decision Matt and I made early on--not sweating Internet Explorer support[2].

RedMinutes is functional in IE6(Internet Explorer 6) and IE7(Internet Explorer 7), but the layout gets a bit wonky. The application can be seen in its full glory using Safari 3 and Firefox 3, and in 90% of its glory using Opera[3].

Anyway, let us know what you think. There will probably be something on the "Relatively Early":http://relativelyearly.com blog soon once we get all settled in.

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fn1. The full Textile formatting of this post can be seen "here":http://gist.github.com/18026.

fn2. ...yet. I'm sure we'll have to eventually.

fn3. No border-radius support yet. Rounded corners are used extensively in the design.