Back after finishing the film

Now that BLAZE FOLEY INSIDE, my documentary about songwriter Blaze Foley is finished, I can turn my attention back to our application. Lee has done a terrific job of completing Phase I, getting a virtual server configured and upgrading the application to Rails 2.3.

The nice thing is that Lee has ripped out the attribute_fu plugin, switching in the nested_model feature of Rails 2.3. So now we're running with official Rails implemented nested models for contractables and users, which is nice.

Phase II will likely kick off at the end of April when I've submitted the film to the Toronto Film Festival. There are still a few minor edits I want to complete before submitting it. Currently, the runtime is 69 minutes and I want to get it up to around 74 minutes, which is more palatable for a film festival to program as a feature-length movie.

When I get back to the project full time, I want to attack the user interface and get it up to speed, more like an application. I also want to get familiar with the new code and see where the Phase II objectives will fit into and modify that code. I'm really looking forward to getting back to the app!