BestPartyEver.com Development

Hey Guys,

  It’s been quite a few weeks since I last posted.  I thought I would update you on my current tinker toys that I do during the day.  I’m a full time CTO/Developer as well as Partner with BestPartyEver.com.  After quite a bit of busy weeks developing we have launched our alpha version of the software and are going through a series of micro-releases.  It’s quite nice to work with a small, but agile team, creating a tremendous amount of growth in this application that has been needing an overhaul for quite a while.  We debuted a new Budget Calculator today that uses auto-saving and live calculations.  Numerous weeks went into making a new javascript library for the site that uses multi-level namespaces for organizing the code for re-use, speed, and compliance with third-party libraries and the silly global namespace issues with prototype, etc.   Some fun modern usability technologies were used to create better site navigation such as  the tag cloud on party ideas.  We can definitely see the popularity of halloween party ideas during this season.  We used geoip tracking to automatically detect the user’s region they are browsing from to target ad locations.  Leveraging an open source tech for this one, hostip.info, we transformed the data layer of hostip to fit snug in with our architecture and still be updated on a regular basis to make the ip system more accurate.  We also developed a layer between Best Party Ever and WordPress MU.  This was a fantastic idea as we didn’t want to redevelop the wheel here and we can re-use technologies developed for the wordpress platform for blogging reducing a mountain of work on our part.  Don’t forget that we do full code reviews before deciding on technologies to be part of our core system.  I’ll write a bit more about the daytime party that I live later.  Take care.

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