http://www.thetopian.com/blog Two Guys Building a Web App Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:18:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.thetopian.com/blog/2006/11/09/integrated-feedback/ Version control is essential for application development when more than one person will be involved with the project if you want to avoid the nightmare of over writing each others files, and just plain useful even if you are developing on your own. Subversion is one of the best version ... http://www.thetopian.com/blog/2006/10/19/version-control-on-os-x/ One of the first considerations for the application is what language to use and which platforms we should support. As this is going to be a "download and install on your own website" application rather than a hosted service, platform support is a key issue. Some of these choices were ... http://www.thetopian.com/blog/2006/10/16/post-production/ We've already mentioned that the app we're building is going to be a 'download and install' rather than a hosted solution, I wanted to take this post to really go over how we came to that decision and outline a few cases where going down this route in the past ... http://www.thetopian.com/blog/2006/10/13/download-and-install/ So the aim of this blog is to build a commercial web application and keep an on-going diary of the process involved in design and building, business decisions and the results of the venture without actually letting you guys in on what exactly the application is :) Alright, it's been ... http://www.thetopian.com/blog/2006/10/12/say-wha/