I’ve recently started a personal project that I’ve decided to chronicle here on the blog. Mostly because I never post anything and I want to change that, but also because I usually don’t have much free time. This may lead to taking a week or two off from working on it and this way I’ll have a diary of events to come back to that will refresh my memory.

The project revolves around a url that I’ve had for a while now but done nothing with. That url is tgt.me. A nice short url that would be well suited to a personal url shortening service. “Wow, that’s nothing new”, your saying, and you’re right. There are plenty of personal shortening services out there and even some free self hosted open source options. My response; It’s the journey, not the destination.

I’m taking this opportunity to do some things I don’t get to do in my professional work.

• Create a restful api interface
• Create a custom MVC framework

I will more than likely host the code on github so stay tuned for that info.

We’ll start with the requirements tomorrow.