Oleksandr Bondar

Now all users can try to use DoStorm application before registration.

After registration you can:

• create as many rounds as you need
• start new rounds from suggestion
• share your rounds

The first version of brainstorm application to get right solutions is online. I do not have the name for it now. The challenge is that there are many way to use this application, you can find ideas, solutions, questions. How to give name for all of them? Initially I thought about application for asking questions, but while working on it, I found that there are many other possibilities.

So, what is ready? Now you can:

• register
• create new brainstorm round
• enter suggestions, issues, questions, ideas, whatever it is
• edit suggestions
• select suggestion that is really important
• sort selected suggestions
• edit name of round
• browse all rounds
• close round, so you stop with adding new suggestions

• Sharing
• Send round to email
• Invite friend to brainstorm round
• Start new round from selected suggestion

Do storm!

Please, write a word, comments or suggestion about application. Thank you!

I am working on deployment web site that should serve thousands online users. Right now website is staying on 4 servers, one for Nginx, two mongrel clusters and one database server. Think to use mongrel clusters as cache servers for images, as images will make the part of traffic.

There is an idea to move images to separate database. Also to implement cache system to make database's life more easy. And of course, optimization, optimization and optimization code.

Exercise to ask the questions helps to understand your current state, what is interesting for you now. it is very easy to do this exercise with paper and pen, just start to write questions that appear in your head. Without pause, ask anything you want. Write down more then 100 questions, it takes about 3-5 minutes. Then look at your list, you can wonder to see some questions ;) Select 10 main question that is most important for you now.

It is very good to repeat this exercise. Ones per month, for example. After several months it is very interesting to see how you grow, how questions are changed, how your life changes directions and focus.

To make this process more easy to manage I am working on web based application that will allow to ask questions, organize them and store. There is no name yet for this project, but this app starts series of personal development online tools.