The E-Entrepreneur

So a while ago, I created a blog for Clinicbook from scratch using Ruby on Rails.  While it does that basic post/comment/view functions, we figured we should stick with Wordpress due to its abundant and already existing infrastructure such as widgets and plugins.   Part of the reason for a blog is to keep the public updated with Clinicbook developments and to provide a platform for users to voice their opinions.  Also, we want to push out health-related information/news through the blog which we think would be of interest to our health-conscious users.  Hence I’ve started exploring this tool called Dapper (www.dapper.net/open), which grabs content from the web.   Today, I played around with it, and managed to get it to output a customized RSS feed.  By the way, it can output different formats as well, but I just chose RSS feed so I could try it out on this site using the Wordpress plugin to display the feeds.

With Aaron’s help, we got the blog up and running on the Clinicbook server. Not bad considering it only took us 2.5 hours. I wrote the blog from scratch using Ruby on Rails, and it was definitely a good way for me to learn the language. There’s still work to do on the blog, but at the very least it’s usable.

The blog isn’t linked from the main Clinicbook page yet, but for those of you who want to take a quick peek, it’s at http://blog.clinicbook.ca