Thanks Guys, I'm glad you like it and yes I like this one a lot better than my old one, so much simpler in 5.4.
>mate, she's a super fast website and i've gotta say looks better than the >previous version. You would probably be amazed to know it's being hosted with amazons elastic beanstalk on a single small instance. It does have the ability to scale up instances automatically, but I have yet to see it happen. Traffic isn't to crazy yet, but I've managed to do over 4000 visits, almost 31 thousand page views, and nearly 500 post in the past couple weeks while still performing very well on a little instance. I'd also like to say I'm currently storing the lucene index in memory without issue, Tap 5.4 appears to perform very well thus far. >i noticed the images.cardaddy.com resolves to AWS. out of curiousity, was >this hard to configure? Very simple, I just used their API and had everything up and running in one night. I just like the redundancy amazon can give me. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/llJavaUploadFile.html >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? It wasn't the application, it was apache. My partner hadn't done security updates on the server in nearly 3 years and at the time I lacked the knowledge or skill to do it myself. This is the reason I have since migrated my app to aws, I do not have time to deal with those kinds of issues. Now if I lose a server, aws will have a new on up and running before I even knew what happened. :) >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. Once you make the move to 5.4, you'll never look back, the tap team has done an incredible job. I'm very pleased with the results. >I also checked out the link when you sent it, nice job! I found myself >imagining how you laid out the components. =) Thanks man, now if I only had a pro helping me out lol. Everything is rather simple, hardly any custom javascript, which makes Tapestry a huge win for me as a lone developer :) The hardest part is designing everything around search engines. I must have fell on my head years ago when I decided to get into the automotive space, it has to be the most competitive space on the web to be. I spend most of my time trying to build URLs, pages, and components to rank well in google. I find that ends up dictating my components and design. congratulations, chris On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 9:59 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 > > -- George Christman www.CarDaddy.com P.O. Box 735 Johnstown, New York
