I accomplished a few non-work related things tonight:

  1. Played touch football. It was the semi finals, and we won! I played moderately well, but the team overall was pretty good. The captain got really excited and was shouting at everyone what to do, which was a bit off-putting for me, but it must have worked because we won and he scored 3 tries.
  2. Configured apache on my VPS to work with multiple hosts. I now have 2 domains hosted on my VPS. This is one of them :) It took me a while to figure it out because I sillyly (is that a word? how do you spell it?) trusted the first google result for apache virtual hosts, which ended up being for apache 1.3 when i'm on 2 point whatever. I eventually figured it out though with a bit more reading and googling. Yay!
  3. Decided on a set of features for my secret new web site idea in the order of importance

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Like I've said to the guys at work, the more I play with my VPS and my ubuntu VM, the closer I come to being a linux guru. There are already heaps of things that I like more in Linux than in Windows. It's a fairly steep learning curve but it's something that I've been meaning to do for such a long time. It feels good to make progress, even if it is slow.

I have been reading up more on Tornado. From what I've seen so far (pretty much just the basic tutorial) the API seems to hit the right balance of simple but powerful.

I will start cutting the first code for the first features over the rest of the week. I have my fingers crossed that this massive learning curve (linux, python, tornado) doesn't prove to be too much. I'm quietly confident that I'll be just fine - it just might take me a bit longer to get started than it would with, say, C# which I do as my day job.