The release plan has been one of those things that has been pushed back a number of times. The primary reason for this is that Ben (our developer) has been working on actual billable work again. Prior to that, he had ended all other engagements for almost two months. Sadly reality had to kick back in.
As of now our only official response to questions of release is ‘as soon as we can’.
The beta testing we were running on the CSS editor is now closed. We got some great feedback, a lot of which we will be rolling into the finished version of the app.
Many thanks to everyone who took part.
Due to the announcement of the merger between the merb and rails frameworks (and some frustrating issues with bleeding-edge software), we’ve had to make some difficult decisions.
The decision was made to completely port the application from merb to rails.
The unfortunate downside is that this pushes our release date back a little further. Although, as far as we’re concerned the benefits of switching to rails far outweigh the negatives, so we believe it’s the right decision.
Here’s a little taste of what we’re currently working on for the edit mode layouts.
We’re in the process of beta-testing some of this stuff now.
After recent discussions with the Flickr team, we’ve decided to rename the application to remove potential ownership confusion.
We’re still in the process of moving everything over to ffolio.net, but everything should be finalised soon.
Big things coming in January…
We thought it was time to release a bit more information on where the project is at and where it’s heading.
How it works
The whole thing is based on a kick-ass caching system (which we will detail a bit more in a future post) to ensure that the site doesn’t run like a dog. Making API calls can be really really slow. It also minimises the amount of bandwidth used by both us and Flickr.
So, faster for you, less of a headache for Flickr.
Version 1.0
This will be a templated, synced version of your Flickr account.
No Flickrfolio interface, no backend, everything is managed through Flickr.
But, we’ve added a few little niceties:
Version 1.1
With this release we’re planning to add a backend interface to Flickrfolio.
The specific details of this release will potentially change based on the feedback from our beta-testing program.
The features we want to focus on:
So we’ll launch with V1, release V1.1 as soon as we possibly can after that and move forward from there. (Agile, baby)
Some may be interested to know that flickrfolio is built with merb, others may be interested to know that its currently being tested, tweaked and prodded with the merb 1.0 release candidate.
Most will be interested to know that we’ll be launching a beta program to iron out any remaining issues and take on some feedback very soon!
Stay tuned or sign up for e-mailed updates.
We’ve launched a small teaser site for flickrfolio, which you can check out at http://www.flickrfolio.net/
In the meantime, while we’re getting ready to launch the full application, we will use this tumblelog as a space to keep you all updated with our progress.
