Coding progress
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]](http://www.inksome.com/img/userinfo.gif)
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.
