Personal Project Knowledge Base

Details About This Project

Start Date 16 Mar 2008 (about 1 year ago)
Timeline 3 days
URL http://knowledgebase.ircwv.com
Responsibilities Ruby, Rails, CSS, XHTML, Database design, programming, deployment

Knowledgebase is a place to keep anything and everything that may be of some use in the future. For example, when writing software, a lot of times you’ll come across the same bug more than once and think, “How did I fix this the last time?” Well, put it into Knowledgebase and don’t worry about it.

The tag line is, “A searchable database for stuff.”

I built this in a couple of days out of a need I had at my company. It’s available within our intranet, but can be accessed from the outside (in case I’m working from home) as well.

I’ve always had plans to build this out into a real application that any company or group or individual could use. There are plenty of ways in which this could be much better. I have the ideas, just not the time.

Things it needs right now: file uploads, tagging, and full-text search.