A Time to Post
Anyone who has been a regular reader may have noticed that I haven't been positng a great deal lately. The cause for the lag has been a 3 month project to rewrite a web application for my local park district to handle registrations four times a year when traffic surges from 2000 visitors per day to 2000 visitors per minute.
The application launches this afternoon and has brought in several challenging new topics: AJAX (including advanced DOM scripting, browser considerations, state management and interaction modelling), Clustering JRun across multiple instances and multiple servers, Load testing, Project Management and scalable application architecture.
After today there will be a two week delay before the madness begins for the Spring registration on February 20th. During this time I will be posting about each of the topics above to describe what happened, what I learned and what resources I found to help guide the application design. You may also find a guest post from Design Jeff to describe how he tackled the new challenge of designing an application for AJAX.
The first post will point you at the finished application to dig around and see what it looks like. Wish me luck!