Well the first 24 hours of groovyblogs.org was a senssational one. Only one outage due to the most fierce electrical storm we’ve had in Canberra for ages. Note to self: move the router onto the UPS as well. I’m pleased to announce that the complete source code for the site (including art) is now available, so if you’ve been wondering how much dodgy-ness can be crammed into 22 hours, now’s your chance to find out. [...]

Boy that 20 hours certainly went more quickly than expected… Actually SlimTimer is telling me that I’m at 21.3 hours, so it’s definitely time for pens down! I’ll factor in the final cleanup and deploy time to get a more accurate final figure for the go-live. Tons of new features made it into the final release, though. Lets start with the more boring webby stuff, since that’s all part of the development deal too, and [...]

Just back from a week at the beach on hols and feeling fantastic. I must say that progress has been a lot slower in the second set of 7 hours but I’m still pretty on track for my 20 hour deadline. SlimTimer is reporting 14.8 hours on the clock, so I figure it must be time for an update. RSS and Atom generation of “Recent Entries” is in and happening. Here’s a grab from Newzcrawler [...]

Ok. Creeping up on 6.7 hours working on my Grails-based Groovy Blog Aggregator and it’s time for an update on what’s done so far. Ok. Quite a lot is in: Account creation, forgotten password Adding a single blog feed to your account (with ajax test/preview) RSS and Atom parsing of feeds using Rome Scheduled updating of all registered feeds (checking for new entries) “Recent Entries” page with basic description summary taglib Hit counting and redirection [...]