New archive for the list
It turned out I could not use the Google Groups service to archive the mailinglist list@letexa.com. The technical reason does not matter, I found a service that is a MUCH better match for Letexa! The Mail Archive is a free but professional quality (it seems) service with a spirit very similar to the one of this project.
On the private side, I am going to join a German startup learn2use.de, and take over responsibility for all the technology (i.e. “CTO”, but that title sounds a little grand for the current early but very promising state). I hope to be able to “leverage some synergies” between Letexa and that business, which means I’ll continue working on Letexa. It’s just a fun project, and I don’t care at all that right now I get only 5 visitors per day :-) That’s because I know that if I tried I could get more, but I take my time. Besides, I use the site to experiment with designs and technology. Design: current Letexa design is supposed to be (remain) simple, with few images (none! except for some buttons and the logo) - and in black&white. Adding some AJAX recently, e.g. for the login, sure wasn’t a high priority from a project point of view (to say the least), but it sure showed me A LOT of things hard about AJAX. That’s not the technology itself, but managing a website and many different possible states that can happen when people with or without Javascript use the site, login using AJAX within a page and then press “Back” in the browser (which navigates to a page that had been created server-side in “logged out” state), and many other potential pitfalls.
Even though I’ve VERY few readers, I’ll keep adding to the change-blog, this is a documentary for later!
Mörre
PS: This latest entry also serves to test the new mailinglist archive, because this blog post is sent out via that list too 