The last mile

A tired Tim

Tim takes a breather for a few minutes after a second all-night coding session, along with Greg, Tom, Andy from Groupspaces and Matthew from Glasses Direct lending a hand.

The end is finally in view for work on our new website. It’s been an unbelievable group effort. We’re hoping to be able to issue the first invitations this afternoon. If you want to be on the list, please add your name to the list at secretlondon.us.

Github project

Ok the github project is up! Check it out, git://github.com/timjdavey/secretapp.git, get “watching” and get involved!

First steps for the Tech

Londoners!

So here’s the deal: I love this city and who doesn’t love secrets… so when I got the chance to help out, I was like “Hell yes!”. I’ve got a couple of years experience building this sort of thing – however if we’re going to make secretlondon amazing – I’m going to need some help. So I’d welcome all the feedback and technical know-how you can muster.

Technical info for the geeks out there: For starters I’m going to be cracking this out using django. I’ll throw the project up on github asap, so you can all have a look and a play. Then it’ll be coupled with the usual – Apache & wsgi for serving the app and nginx for serving static files & cached pages.
Where I’m really worried though is scalability and speed of getting this bad boy to market. So, I’m going to be using our old friend amazon. I’ve got a decent AMI kicking about with most of this already pre-configured. But I have no idea what kind of loads we’ll be getting. So, for a db server I’m toying with the idea of using RDS to try and reduce the management hassle (we can always pull it back from here at a later point). Then just for kicks use ELB as a Load Balancer. I realize this is all a bit Amazon-tastic, but the aim here is go quickly (and I love it).

I know this update is vague so I’m looking forward to hearing what people think.
Tim