After countless number of hours of hard working (since April 2008), the AdMyself project is finally ready to go live! We are putting final touches on the system and will bring it to the real world very soon.

For a complex project as AdMyself to become a reality, group effort is a must. Here I would like to thank the company team (Ashish Kapoor, Yedu Kumar, and myself) for the amount of time and effort, as well as many personal sacrifices (family time and holidays).

I also want to express our appreciation to the company who helped us develop the system. RailsFactory is a superb company in cutting-edge technologies. The professionalism delivered by the team is just amazing. Dinesh and the team, we thank you for the great experience!

We use the awesomeness of Jekyll to generate this site. It makes it super easy to generate static pages from templates. Jekyll is a static site generator written in ruby that runs your files thru Markdown or Textile to split out static html pages. There are options available with Jekyll that allow you to configure the template engine, syntax highlighter, permalinks and pagination.

Some of the benefits of serving static html pages are: very little security concerns, speed, less maintenance (no db to maintain, backup, web server configuration etc), easier version control and ease of deployment.

Markdown trick:

In one of my Markdown template files I needed to add link to an image. The way to do this in Markdown syntax is:

 [![Alt text][2]][1]
 [1]: http://www.example.com/  "Example"
 [2]: http://www.foo.com/includes/images/foo.jpeg

this will generate the needed html markup:

 <a href="http://www.example.com/" title="Example">
 <img src="http://www.foo.com/includes/images/foo.jpeg" alt="Alt text" /></a>