I'd be so happy if something like this existed. However, I'm not sure there are enough Pharo webdevs to make a service like that profitable...
But yes, I do feel this need! I'm sick of configuring VPSes with their apache virtual hosts, DBs, etc. 2013/1/26 Andy Burnett <[email protected]> > We would love to develop more of our ideas in Pharo, but we are completely > allergic to doing sys admin. We don't want to deal with anything below the > Pharo application level. What I would ideally like to see if something like > Heroku, or similar, but for Pharo. However, just wishing won't make it > happen, so I am wondering if there is anyone out there who is thinking > about this, and whether there are enough of us to constitute are market. > > Our requirements are pretty simple. We need a way of uploading an image, > and some standard for of persistence. At this point, we would be perfectly > happy to make compromises by agreeing that it had to be e.g. Mongo or > whatever (although ideally it would be gemstone). We just want to make some > progress on this. > > Personally, I think lots of bits are coming together. We now have various > persistence options, websockets (both in Zinc and Aida-web), OAuth ( in > both places again), and lots of other exciting elements. We just want a > really simple way to take advantage of them. > > Does anyone else feel this need? > -- Bernat Romagosa.
