Alan Hietala’s Core Dump

Just a quick update on one of my side projects Infinity Pool. I’ve pulled it out of beta and it is now hosting 300 accounts with over 2500 army lists for the table top game Infinity created. When I started the project I figured it would be a good way to keep my Rails skills up to date I didn’t think it would still have many daily users this far after launch.

As happens with many table top games the rules are about to undergo a huge overhaul. This means much of the codebase will need to change. This will be an interesting challenge as I will need to maintain all of the current users data while adding in all of the new features that are coming due to the new armies and rules.

This should be pretty fun and some good experience. All I can say is I’m grateful I built out a full suite of tests for my code as having them will be essential to ensuring that things don’t break while the site is under heavy reconstruction.

I’ve created a new blog over at www.mediumhard.com. It covers all the gaming related material that I want to talk about but never really set up a platform to do it from. Should be a lot of fun, some good humour and lots of youtube videos. Check it out!