October 2008
1 post
Server Woes
Groopi has been having a rocky time over the last few months but we are almost out of the worst of it!
Groopi was being hosted by heroku.com but they were having some serious issues with their load balancers (Gateway exceptions reported when logging in, saving guitar tabs etc..) I have been dealing with a chap named Ivan over than matter, but after three weeks correspondance the issue was still...
August 2008
1 post
Status Update #2
Musician & Band Profiles are pretty much done now, leaving the next big piece of work to be getting this standards compliant web-site working with IE6/7/8. This shouldn’t be too complicated (just time-consuming and makes me cringe a lot) as my day job involves getting sites working exclusively with IE (I know more about bugs in IE than Microsoft do!!)
Once this is done, I can...
July 2008
1 post
Status Update #1
Groopi is currently feature complete, however because of the radical UI design, it is taking me some time to decide how the features should look and then integrate them into the UI.
I am also taking the time to add as many unit/functional tests as I can, to make sure the UI will remain stable for the initial release and as sanity checks during any future updates.
June 2008
1 post
Groopi Blog
Hi all, this blog is going to be used to keep you up-to-date with my project: Groopi, a “Get Things Done” web site for musicians.
Currently the site is still being developed. I am hoping to get a private beta out for August for about 250-500 people to start seeing how the site will perform, and to iron any kinks that we may find before making this site available to the general...