A Personal Portfolio

Last year, I wrote about trying to balance the amount of time you spend consuming and creating on my other blog.  I tried, pretty over ambitiously, to spend a week where I spent as much time creating as I did consuming.  Mostly because I was taking classes at the time and was spending most of my time on that,  but also because I could not track my time very easily,  I didn’t make it very far into the project.  To this end, I’ve decided to make my first project a web app to help you track how long you are productive throughout the day.

The application will be Java based, using the Spring Framework, Hibernate for ORM and either JSP or Velocity for the view formatting, all running in Tomcat.  I want to focus on scalability, security, and solid software practices while getting something up and running as quickly as possible.  I’ve decided to use Java because the product I am working on at work uses a similar architecture, and I would like to understand a Tomcat application from the ground up.

I’ll have more to come soon on my plans for the first two weeks of the project and hopefully a catchy name with a snazzy web 2.0 logo.