General Blogginess

Quick update

Thought a quick update on status would be good.

There are at least 4 people looking at the codebase, including me. This is a good sign because, although it’s complex and feature rich, it’s relatively clean and Patrick (@plightbo) has graciously provided a script to grab the dependencies, meaning going from “broken” to “not broken” is relatively painless.

Having awakened at 4:45 this morning (don’t ask), I was able to compile the codebase cleanly using his script (For the non-tech folks, this means that the engine runs, although there may be a few problems yet with brakes and steering, so you wouldn’t want your daughter to drive it yet).

I’m communicating with Patrick now about setting the code up on a server. Once that’s done, we will take AJ’s (@linuxaid) database and start connecting it.

Sam Klein stepped up to work on graphics, so when things are running, we’ll have a full graphics design, making a later search for such work unneeded. Thanks, Sam.

Right now the steps we need immediately to get the site running are:

• Get the compiled codebase running on a test server.
• Dump AJ’s database to the server and hook up the wires
• Hook up AJ’s parser scripts to those wires to keep things updated

I’ll keep you updated here on how that’s going. Feel free to comment or send questions to the Google Groups List if you have them.

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