mate, she's a super fast website and i've gotta say looks better than the previous version. i noticed the images.cardaddy.com resolves to AWS. out of curiousity, was this hard to configure?
i am interested in things breaking, so - where exactly did the exploit for bringing down the old service come from? apache http -> app server? and what version of apache were you using? i have just deployed version-1.0.9 of an internal ip address app that is written on tapestry-5.3 and am FINALLY getting onto a simple tapestry 5.4 project from scratch. congratulations, chris On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:59 AM, George Christman <gchrist...@cardaddy.com>wrote: > I'd like to first say thanks to all who have contributed to the on going > evolution of Tapestry and it's support. I'm a long time user of Tapestry > starting with version 3 in 2005 and I must say leaps and bounds have been > made since then. I'd also like to say thanks to all who have continued to > answer my never ending array of questions ;-) Thanks guys! It has been a > pleasure working with you all. > > In 2008 we took a risk and decided to move forward with t5 beta over spring > with the development of our new app. We experienced some short lived > glorious times as we successfully processed hundreds of thousands of users > and cars, however do to our nations elected official and his cash for > clunkers program, it destroyed our market place forcing me to have to > change our brand to CarDaddy.com. > > With the lack of success with the new brand I eventually had to move on to > other opportunities. I ended up taking a job with our state government and > some contract work for a hotel wireless company, however along with my > move, I decided to bring along my dear friend Tapestry5. Tapestry5 has > ended up becoming an active platform within my organizations which we are > now actively focused on building 5.4 apps. :) > > While being focused with my other work, my personal app which was still > being ran on T5.1 was lacking support and ended up getting hacked (apache) > three weeks ago by the Chinese bringing down my servers. This forced me to > have to whip up a new application over the past three weeks by myself in > 5.4 and yup, that wasn't a typo, only three weeks and that includes mobile > too, okay maybe they were 3 very long weeks, but I still managed to pulled > it off and I don't think I could have without the help of T5.4, jquery, > bootstrap etc :) Well I'd like to share my new app with the community while > once again pushing out a beta app into production :) I realize there is a > lot of room for improvement, so feel free to suggest away. Growth seems to > be on the rise as traffic / inventory continue to increase daily and I > don't have a doubt in my mind that Tapestry won't be up for the job. > > Once again, thank you guys for all you have done. > > New 5.4-beta3 site > www.cardaddy.com > > > Cheers, > George > > -- > George Christman > www.CarDaddy.com > P.O. Box 735 > Johnstown, New York >
