I've been listening to Happy Hardcore all day, so it might have had something to do with perking my brainwaves all on up. Whatever it was, today was fucking awesome.
Today I successfully created a proof of concept Rails application that uses FancyUpload, MooTools, Amazon AWS, attachment_fu, and mimetype_fu. This application allows seamless multi-file uploads to attachment_fu (which generates thumbnails flawlessly) and in turn stores the files to AWS's S3 service.
To any non-programmers, this is probably not interesting, but shit, I had to do this by hand in PHP less than a year ago and I'm still battling with it. Enter Rails (and some brilliant plugins) and I have the whole damn thing up in a few hours. Not to mention that the whole upload/download is ultra secure and replicated across the globe with basically 99.99999% uptime. That beats my halfassed server petting zoo at the office by about six nines!
