Of course, there is yet more time to be wasted: how about getting a version control system up and running?
Luckily I’d done this before (TextDrive lets their web hosting customers set up a subversion repository on their servers) on one of my other iterations though this ground – and promptly filled it with a now stale version of Rails. That’s now deleted, and all that’s left is a text file which, were I at work, would be called a requirements document for the Idea.
The Idea has been kicking around in my head for nearly two years now. It won’t change the world, but it might be useful. I’ve already come across two distinct cases where it would have come in very handy, and from that there’s a generalisation of a gap that a web application could fill.
So my little doco describing all this came into being (according to the svn log) at 6:50am on the morning of 8 June this year. It needs a lot more added to it.
Using svn/svnX on the MacBook, and now svn/RapidSVN on the work laptop that lives at home, I can now do what I should really be doing before I start tinkering with the dev part of all this: working out the concepts, the entities, and how they relate. If Becky wants to use the MacBook I can switch to the Windows machine.
Without gritting my teeth too much, even.