3eep pre-season

Its been quite a while since I last posted but I thought it was fair time to add something. Luis had posted briefly a few days ago about the launch of 3eep our latest project that has been keeping us busy since December but as project lead I didn’t get a chance to update.

3eep is a sporting community that enables fans, players, coaches and managers to communicate, manage their teams or show their passion (even if they don’t play). We are very excited to let it see the light of day (as of course are the team over at 3eep too), for me it is something close to my heart being a rather passionate volleyball player.

For us the 3eep site is the first live implementation of our new social software platform. The platform – media::core has been under development for the past few months, taking the key elements in most social networks (blogs, forums, user management, etc) and putting them together into a solid system based on Ruby on Rails. Months ago, we started from a blank slate and so could build it directly off the cutting edge code base for Rails that became the new Rails 1.2 (luckily it went final before the launch of 3eep). This gave us great set of core functionality with things like REST web services, easy RSS/Atom integration and of course all the other features that make Rails such a joy to work with.

The 3eep site extended off this core platform and integrated all the things you see in the 3eep site. Teams, Clubs and Sports, along with the member management in MyZones. We had a lot of fun (and hard work) putting together the initial functionality for the beta. Like most of the sites we develop, it is just one point in the evolution of the site, one we are looking forward to continuing.

So what are you waiting for… stop reading this post, head over and start sharing your passion.