Heisted to Rapidweaver
17/12/06 21:42 |
Tech
So, I've moved the blog over to RapidWeaver. Up until
this point I've been using iWeb, but I was never
really that happy with iWeb - it's a bit too limited
for me.
I had actually been developing a web-creation system (and maybe I'll carry on) called 'Kaligraphy'. The idea was to take iWeb and make it more powerful, to make an application that was very integrated with a PHP engine on the web-server. The OSX-side was going to be just a layout-creation tool, with the text being flowed via a content-management system written in PHP.
I've written a content-management system before ... I wrote the one powering Incisive Media's websites, at last count there were over a hundred thousand webpages being served from that system. I wrote a full-text indexing system to run over it that was an order of magnitude faster than the MySQL built-in text-index. I wrote a mass-mailing engine (*) that could key off that search-engine to produce dynamic results and send a million or so emails per day with full read/response tracking. I wrote modules that allowed subscriptions by product, by page-count, by time, etc. What I am trying to say is that I have some experience in dynamic websites... I was hoping to bring that experience to bear while creating a graphical front-end on the Mac rather than the form-based front-end that we have right now.
To bring this post (kicking and screaming) back on topic - I've moved to RapidWeaver mainly because I have another 'big' project underway , and the fact that it has a plugin architecture. That ought to give me sufficient flexibility for what I want to do, without having to write a complete application to do it. The new idea is fantastic - even revolutionary :-) so I can't see myself finishing Kaligraphy in preference... So much to do, so little time...
I was considering going with SandVox, but with the 'MacHeist' offer available, I thought I'd try RapidWeaver instead. I've seen the pro's and cons argued back and forth (and to be honest, I'm not sure I'd have gone with the offer if I was a developer of one of the products), but from an end-user's perspective, I think it's a good-enough deal to go for. Personally it was the website-layout tool and one of the games (enigmo2) that made it worthwhile. I guess everyone will be different...
I guess the other point is that some poor deluded folk have actually subscribed to the RSS feed on here, and they're going to need to resubscribe to the new feed if they want to keep up-to-date.
(*) Incisive are good-guys - you only get mailed if you've genuinely signed up for something, and every mail contains a link that will actually unsubscribe you, rather than add your email to a "verified" list as some people do.
I had actually been developing a web-creation system (and maybe I'll carry on) called 'Kaligraphy'. The idea was to take iWeb and make it more powerful, to make an application that was very integrated with a PHP engine on the web-server. The OSX-side was going to be just a layout-creation tool, with the text being flowed via a content-management system written in PHP.
I've written a content-management system before ... I wrote the one powering Incisive Media's websites, at last count there were over a hundred thousand webpages being served from that system. I wrote a full-text indexing system to run over it that was an order of magnitude faster than the MySQL built-in text-index. I wrote a mass-mailing engine (*) that could key off that search-engine to produce dynamic results and send a million or so emails per day with full read/response tracking. I wrote modules that allowed subscriptions by product, by page-count, by time, etc. What I am trying to say is that I have some experience in dynamic websites... I was hoping to bring that experience to bear while creating a graphical front-end on the Mac rather than the form-based front-end that we have right now.
To bring this post (kicking and screaming) back on topic - I've moved to RapidWeaver mainly because I have another 'big' project underway , and the fact that it has a plugin architecture. That ought to give me sufficient flexibility for what I want to do, without having to write a complete application to do it. The new idea is fantastic - even revolutionary :-) so I can't see myself finishing Kaligraphy in preference... So much to do, so little time...
I was considering going with SandVox, but with the 'MacHeist' offer available, I thought I'd try RapidWeaver instead. I've seen the pro's and cons argued back and forth (and to be honest, I'm not sure I'd have gone with the offer if I was a developer of one of the products), but from an end-user's perspective, I think it's a good-enough deal to go for. Personally it was the website-layout tool and one of the games (enigmo2) that made it worthwhile. I guess everyone will be different...
I guess the other point is that some poor deluded folk have actually subscribed to the RSS feed on here, and they're going to need to resubscribe to the new feed if they want to keep up-to-date.
(*) Incisive are good-guys - you only get mailed if you've genuinely signed up for something, and every mail contains a link that will actually unsubscribe you, rather than add your email to a "verified" list as some people do.