David, Thanks for your feedback on the performance, scalability and localization capabilities of Lift, and for your generous offer to help with our project (I'm sure you are very busy). I'll be in touch with you if/when we start down the Lift path.
Thanks again, Sam Reid On Apr 5, 7:09 am, David Pollak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:05 PM, samreid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Lift community, > > > My name is Sam Reid, I'm a Java + Scala developer for PhET Interactive > > Simulations athttp://phet.colorado.edu/. We produce free, open > > source educational science simulations for college and high school- > > level students. We are considering porting our website to Lift and > > adding some functionality such as internationalization. I was > > wondering if there are any Lift developers who would be interested in > > this work. If you're interested, please look through our existing > > website athttp://phet.colorado.edu/and provide a time/price estimate > > to me at reids at colorado dot edu. We have some existing databases > > that would need to be supported, and the existing code is PHP+HTML > > +JavaScript. We currently average about 200,000 pageviews/day, and > > we'll need to make sure that Lift is capable of this and more. > > Sam, > > My experience with Lift apps is that 200K page views a day (which probably > peaks at 20K/hr and 2K/min in the peak times) is not a problem on a modern > server (e.g., 1-2Ghz dual opteron or xeon). > > The Lift community is here to serve you and help with the project and if > there are any performance shortcomings, please let me know. I consider > these defects and will fix them. > > Between the work that Marius, Viktor, and Tim have done, I think that Lift > has a good localization story... but if we need to add features, please let > us know. > > Personally, I'll donate 2 hours a week to your project to be used however > you think is best. I'm looking forward to something that my kids will be > able to use in a few years. > > Thanks, > > David > > > Please > > let me know if you have questions or comments. > > > Thanks, > > Sam Reid > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web frameworkhttp://liftweb.net > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some:http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
