Hi Pete,
Definitely nice work on the page layout. It's my job to play devil's
advocate so to speak, so don't take this as criticism, but instead I'm just
trying to think through all the important issues beyond "hey that looks
really nice."
I'm not very familiar with google apps engine which you used to develop this
page, but it does look like a very nice and powerful service. There would
be lots of good points to using it.
On the other hand we should consider and discuss some of the possible down
sides to google apps engine.
- Everything we develop for this site and all the database data is in a
format that depends on google's proprietary services.
- We would be forced to host the site on google's servers (free hosting up
to a certain bandwidth/cpu limitation)
- There would be no possibility of ever moving/porting the site to another
host because the entire site is dependent on the google apps infrastructure.
- Do we want to lock ourselves into google?
We might decide that none of these issues are an overriding concern. I use
google for my email, I use google docs more and more heavily, I use google
search 100's of times a day, I have a google android cell phone, I use
google's calendar service, I basically don't use my nuvi any more now that
google maps came out with a live navigation application that runs on my
phone. I've been running google chrome on my desktop now instead of firefox
because it uses a lot fewer system resources for the 30-40 web tabs I have
open across 3 virtual desktops at any given time on my computer. I'm
probably still forgetting half the google things I use every day. I'd be
SOL if google evaporated from the planet. So what's one more dependency?
But that said, we should make sure we go a step beyond "looks great" and
understand what we would be getting ourselves into, and at least make some
conscious decision (even if we don't have 100% group agreement ... we never
have 100% agreement.) :-)
Regards,
Curt.
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Patrice Poly <p.pol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I like it too ! Very nice and fresh work !
>
> On 08/03/2010 06:22, Pete Morgan wrote:
> > Have developed the idea a bit further.
> >
> > http://fg-www.appspot.com/
> >
> > idea is to have a dedicated aircraft and Online site also
> >
> >
> > is this worth pursuing ? Its quite neat and developer friendly on the
> > Google App Engine.
> >
> > pete
> >
>
>
>
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