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**benjamin** · March 27th, 2007, 8:17 PM

I couldn't find the thread where Kayla said there would be trouble for Daniel if he didn't get it done as promised in this very thread... more than 3 weeks ago. Sorry, Daniel!

I'm sure they are still hard at work on this and it will have been worth the wait.

**sneagle** · March 27th, 2007, 10:54 PM

It is here on 3/8...5th post
What exactly do you offer?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kayla

...Our server status page was redone and will be finished by the end of this week, as promised by Daniel here... or else he's in BIG.. HUGE... trouble.

**benjamin** · March 27th, 2007, 10:57 PM

I knew I wasn't hallucinating. Good job getting search to work, sneagle. For some reason, I had no luck...

I guess Kayla is a more forgiving boss than she likes to pretend...

**Skipdawg** · March 28th, 2007, 1:33 AM

Oh no if he is in trouble with Kayla....

He might be better off getting lost in the Everglades. lol

**jordanriane** · March 29th, 2007, 5:14 PM

He might already be out "lost" in the Everglades.

**Skipdawg** · March 29th, 2007, 6:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jordanriane

He might already be out "lost" in the Everglades.

**Daniel** · March 29th, 2007, 8:05 PM

Welp dear surpassers, I am not lost in Everglades, and yes, I have been poked and prodded at by Kayla and by others here at Surpass to get it done; and yes, I know I am following a very "Microsoft"'ish approach to this, but let me explain what's going on, instead of giving silly excuses

See, when initial plans were made about getting the status page done, it was naturally assumed that our backend would be written in Perl, because well, I've been doing perl for about 7 years now, and know it pretty darn well. Then, something struck us, and we decided to move in a totally different direction and take a different approach.

The approach I am speaking of, is the "Apple" approach, rather then the "Microsoft" way. By this I mean, we wanted to come up with something really cool, with all the bells and whistles, and not just do the usual "get the job done" path. We wanted quality, instead of a quick hack n' slash job where it just works. We wanted to be on the forefront of everything that is cool, lovely and pretty. Perl unfortunately is none of these (with a slight exception of a couple of nifty things such as writing backend apps like daemons, and crazy parsers etc :-) ).

I've been lately getting very interested in Ruby and the lovely Rails framework. And this is where the point comes to the conclusion -- we decided that it'd be more "Surpass" and more cutting edge, and just plain cooler to do a status that would be completely RoR powered. Due to the fact that I'm still stumbling at some points with RoR, this has subsequently taking a bit longer, but no worries - the end result will be worth the wait.

Want some other delicious details? My favorite editor (textmate) has stayed open with the entire Status rails application for over two weeks straight on my macbook. Every day getting peeked at, and worked on bit by bit.

So in retrospect, I really hope all of you can forgive me for making you guys wait more and more, but I promise, the end result will be awesome. Flowers will bloom, birds will sing, and the new Rails powered app is simply going to rock :-D

Love,

-Dan

**panache** · March 30th, 2007, 11:26 AM

so.. here is the million dollar question...

is it going to be for sale?

because if this rocks as much as you say its going to rock... then selling it would only be the next best step...

MJ

**benjamin** · March 30th, 2007, 11:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by panache

because if this rocks as much as you say its going to rock... then selling it would only be the next best step...

Yeah, except that then Surpass would not be as unique...

March 27th, 2007, 8:17 PM	#19 (permalink)
benjamin Sur, pass the salt Excelling Contributor Joined in Sep 2005 Hosted on Pass44 744 posts Gave thanks: 36 Thanked 51 times	I couldn't find the thread where Kayla said there would be trouble for Daniel if he didn't get it done as promised in this very thread... more than 3 weeks ago. Sorry, Daniel! I'm sure they are still hard at work on this and it will have been worth the wait. __________________ Benjamin Server: Pass44

March 27th, 2007, 10:57 PM	#21 (permalink)
benjamin Sur, pass the salt Excelling Contributor Joined in Sep 2005 Hosted on Pass44 744 posts Gave thanks: 36 Thanked 51 times	I knew I wasn't hallucinating. Good job getting search to work, sneagle. For some reason, I had no luck... I guess Kayla is a more forgiving boss than she likes to pretend... __________________ Benjamin Server: Pass44

March 28th, 2007, 1:33 AM	#22 (permalink)
Skipdawg Insanely Super #1 Joined in Jul 2005 Lives in Northwest USA 4,154 posts Gave thanks: 39 Thanked 78 times	Oh no if he is in trouble with Kayla.... He might be better off getting lost in the Everglades. lol __________________

March 29th, 2007, 5:14 PM	#23 (permalink)
jordanriane muffins Excelling Contributor Joined in Mar 2006 Lives in Chicago, IL Hosted on NONE 644 posts Gave thanks: 26 Thanked 34 times	He might already be out "lost" in the Everglades. __________________ {o,o} O RLY? atourworst.org - mywhmcs.com \|)__) -"-"-

March 30th, 2007, 11:26 AM	#26 (permalink)
panache Surpass Fan Excelling Contributor Joined in Dec 2005 Lives in . Hosted on Pass49 576 posts Gave thanks: 55 Thanked 9 times	so.. here is the million dollar question... is it going to be for sale? because if this rocks as much as you say its going to rock... then selling it would only be the next best step... MJ __________________ Server: Pass49 Site: Panache Web Ventures

March 29th, 2007, 8:05 PM	#25 (permalink)
Daniel Sysadmin Seasoned Poster Joined in Feb 2005 71 posts Gave thanks: 0 Thanked 42 times	Welp dear surpassers, I am not lost in Everglades, and yes, I have been poked and prodded at by Kayla and by others here at Surpass to get it done; and yes, I know I am following a very "Microsoft"'ish approach to this, but let me explain what's going on, instead of giving silly excuses See, when initial plans were made about getting the status page done, it was naturally assumed that our backend would be written in Perl, because well, I've been doing perl for about 7 years now, and know it pretty darn well. Then, something struck us, and we decided to move in a totally different direction and take a different approach. The approach I am speaking of, is the "Apple" approach, rather then the "Microsoft" way. By this I mean, we wanted to come up with something really cool, with all the bells and whistles, and not just do the usual "get the job done" path. We wanted quality, instead of a quick hack n' slash job where it just works. We wanted to be on the forefront of everything that is cool, lovely and pretty. Perl unfortunately is none of these (with a slight exception of a couple of nifty things such as writing backend apps like daemons, and crazy parsers etc :-) ). I've been lately getting very interested in Ruby and the lovely Rails framework. And this is where the point comes to the conclusion -- we decided that it'd be more "Surpass" and more cutting edge, and just plain cooler to do a status that would be completely RoR powered. Due to the fact that I'm still stumbling at some points with RoR, this has subsequently taking a bit longer, but no worries - the end result will be worth the wait. Want some other delicious details? My favorite editor (textmate) has stayed open with the entire Status rails application for over two weeks straight on my macbook. Every day getting peeked at, and worked on bit by bit. So in retrospect, I really hope all of you can forgive me for making you guys wait more and more, but I promise, the end result will be awesome. Flowers will bloom, birds will sing, and the new Rails powered app is simply going to rock :-D Love, -Dan

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