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Coding progress [Aug. 28th, 2009|02:13 pm]
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Just wanted to let you all know that the task of porting Inksome to Google App Engine has begun. It's going to take a while to complete, and it won't even be ready for alpha testing for at least another month, but it's in progress. :)

I've set up a page on SourceForge for it: http://inksome.sourceforge.net/. Donations to this project go towards helping me pay my bills while I'm redeveloping the site.

It occurs to me that while I posted about the Google App Engine plan in [info]staff_kit, I didn't do it here. So here's the plan:

I'm redeveloping Inksome to run on Google App Engine. This allows us to (hopefully) reduce our expenses, because up to a certain level of resources Google App Engine is free, and increase our reliability, because Google App Engine is a cloud platform - there's no one machine to go down. This will require a complete redesign of Inksome from the ground up, however, because GAE doesn't support Perl or MySQL. Thus it's going to take a while. :)

And yes, this means there's another Switcheroo coming up sometime next year.
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[User Picture]From: [info]talec
2009-08-29 12:54 am (UTC)

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Ooh, neat! This'll be interesting :D
[User Picture]From: [info]bulma
2009-08-29 06:14 pm (UTC)

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omg this is awesome! i can't wait, but does this mean I'll have to recreate my account again like last time? i kinda like being #9 :P

anywho, I want to buy some icons, but is that only for paid users? i'd just buy paid time but i'm an early contributor, and I dont really use any other journals. i suppose i could donate to someone else' account, but I'd like to splurge on myself hehe