New private beta tester wave at like/diss

If you weren’t quick enough to get one of the private beta signup codes on UIJanes blog:

http://uijane.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/new-release-of-likediss/

You still have a chance to get an invitation to like/diss if you signup for a beta account at our home page:

http://www.likediss.com/

We expect to accept a new wave of private beta testers shortly after a couple of more bug fixes.

Working with YUI

As Jane recently wrote, we spent an evening together with YUI. From a developer point of view I would say that it is a very mature piece of work. The API is well documented and as a developer you can work with it in almost the same way that you do with server side frameworks.

If you plug in the JSEclipse plug into your Eclipse you get full content assistance for YUI in the same way that you get for Prototype so you don’t need to read everything from the API docs.

After using Prototypes utilities like setting up XHR communication, managing events and elements, it takes a while to switch to YUI’s equivalents, not because they are inferior but because you are used to do it with Prototype.

Tags and Performance

Speaking of suggestion of tags for post and bizbob, he added an enhancement request to our Trac DB proposing that the tags suggested in the list should not only be based on previous tags in the DB but on frequent words that are found in users posts and that users with a high score value should be weighted in so that their tags should appear highest in the list.

Oh well, that could be done, I responded as always, but what does our UX specialist says about ordinary words coming up in the tag list and what will happen with our performance? Bob responded that it just a matter of looking up words in another table… Can someone tell me why biz people knows that there are tables in a database?

We’re not yet having the Twitter issues and Pownce problems with the performance of our social network community but that could be because we are still in a beta phase with a limited number of users

I really need to populate the dev server’s DB with some millions of posts, comments and tags tomorrow and put a load test on it to see where we are regarding the performance at the moment.

TechToby Now at WordPress

I really got to setup WordPress on a dedicated linux box. WordPress.com as a SaaS is really too slow. Just have to convince BizBob to finance another rack.