[Grok-dev] We launched a cool site using Grok

[Jan-Wijbrand Kolman]

I realize I'm very late with this response... nonetheless: thanks for 
sharing your succes story!!

regards, jw


On 7/18/11 22:20 , Sebastian Ware wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> Just wanted to let you know that we launched a pretty cool site built with Grok.
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>    http://www.boardsportsource.com/
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> Works really nice in both a web browser and on the iPad. Basically we have the second generation of our in-house workflow based CMS as the backend and we're running Grok 1.4.
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> On the front-end we are running Mootools and a thin mootools based run-time that handles user interaction and dispatching actions to the back-end. It is very much an AJAX-website but with all business logic on the back-end.
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> We have some complex data types thank's to the ZODB which allows us among other things to save multi-res images and serve the best fitting image to visitors with different resolution displays.
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> I think we have around 200k+ objects in the database with plenty of image galleries and 5k of news posts. Almost 5 Gb of images. They have all been exported from a previous generation of the site and then imported using a simple custom built utility and adapter based import mechanism.
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> It was great fun building and we are getting pretty decent performance. You can check it out for yourself.
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> Our next step is to bypass Grok when serving dynamic images to improve performance. It's should only be a configuration issue and will hopefully improve the user experience on iPads and smart phones over slow connections.
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> Mvh Sebastian