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Developer’s Corner - The SimpleDB Question

Our Database makes me nervous.
I mean, it’d be fine for a blog or a picture hosting site, but because of the format of the database, we could easily expect hundreds of thousands of database records within 6 months. I am not a Database Administrator, and don’t have much interest in learning about building a MYSQL [...]

Developer’s Corner - Planned Features

We’ve been adding links and images to the app lately, and are moving closer to wrapping things up on the testing server.  We are going to be hosting using the awesome Elastic Compute Cloud supplied by Amazon Web Services, so I’m pretty sure if there is a sudden jump in usage, we’ll be able to [...]

Developer’s Corner - Everything up until now

Here’s a quick history of the development of the project. At the time of this post, all development for this project has been done in free time, before and after our “real” jobs. There wasn’t a concentrated effort by a team of developers, it was Tim and me working it out.
When I first started in [...]