This summer I will have some spare time and I want to begin to learn a new lenguage and develop a new, 2ch like, messege board system, all for fun. And I need ideas and suggestions. What should be implemented? What not?

I'm thinking about develop it in Ruby with MySQL database for the backend and using AJAX for the interface.

I'm very interested in opinions to begin with the analysis and design, and start learning and coding asap.

PD: Sorry for my poor english.

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Yes, that's true, I know SQL and have started to learn ruby, and I thinked that I can do something fun for me and useful for people, you have a reason about the SQL and AJAX thing, not sure if ruby is slow or not.

I will re-think the whole idea then.