A quick follow up post on the recent release of XP-Dev.com. There were some bugs that needed to be resolved. Some pretty critical ones, while others were just minor annoyances. However, the dust should have settled now. I’m not saying that there aren’t any bugs left, but most have been fixed. Of course, if you do notice anything odd, please raise a support ticket and we’ll resolve it asap.
I decided to take it easy the past couple of days, as I’ve been working on XP-Dev.com like a maniac for the past 4 weeks. Just to give this some context – I began rewriting the whole of XP-Dev.com from 16th October 2008 and released it on 17th November 2008, which is about a months worth of work. I current site has 13k lines of Java (not including unit tests) and 2k lines of HTML/Velocity templates. There’s about 1k lines of XML, but most of that is just Spring configuration (NOT their web framework – I’m only using Spring for IOC), and I had a day job to take care of. There was plenty of refactoring done during this time, and these numbers are only the final figures. All in all – a crazy month, but well worth it!
It is a complete re-write with a whole new custom MVC framework and object relational mapper (ORM) layer. I’m seriously considering releasing the MVC framwork as open source (the ORM needs some work!), which I think is pretty darn good – writing new dynamic pages and forms is a breeze! Now, I’m sure a lot of you might be wondering why I embarked on such an ambitious journey ? Well, stay tuned as I will be posting a series of blog posts on how I re-engineered and re-architected XP-Dev.com, and the reasons behind those decisions.
The new XP-Dev.com has only been released for 3 days and I did get quite a few mails from users who expressed their gratitude. I can’t begin to thank all of you for those kind emails and support tickets – it is really good to know that there are plenty of you out there who are happy users, and that the past month has been well worth it! I’ve got many more ideas to put into XP-Dev.com, so, think of the recent release as the beginning of something new 
Tags: Java, Linux, Programming, spring, XP-Dev.com
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