So i finally put my new grails built website live this week.
http://www.ebookstamper.com
The elevator pitch is:
On demand stamping of PDF ebooks with your customers name and email
The long description is:
A web based service providing on demand stamping of PDF ebooks with your customers name and email. Helps protect your intellectual property by providing a deterrent against file sharing.
People who write ebooks and self publish will know what I am talking about.
I have been working on it in my spare time (is there such thing as spare time) for the last few months. Recently I took some quality time out and worked on it full time to get it out the door. The good new is that I have developed 4 grails plugins that have come out of building this website.
I love grails and it has help me so much in getting things out the door as soon as possible so I feel it is only right to give back to the community. So I have released these four plugins:
These are:
Javascript validator plugin
Grails template engine plugin
Super file upload plugin
Paypal Pro plugin
Although the code for the last 2 is checked in i have not found time to write up the docs. But will get to that asap. If you want to see the Super file upload plugin (SFU) in action go to my new website above and click on the demo button. The styled red browse button you see there is using the SFU plugin. When you upload a PDF you get the upload progress bar showing too.
Also I am hosting the whole thing on Amazon EC2 so will write up some posts on running grails apps on EC2. Some ticky bits worth documenting.
Peace...
8 comments:
Hi,
Which hosting party are you using?
Cheers,
Marcel
Hi Marcel
I am using amazon EC2. Absolutely amazing. The have a firefox plugin called Elasticfox. So easy to use. I will post a blog entry about how to use it.
Very interested to hear about EC2. Am looking at porting a grails app to the cloud and was looking at google application engine mainly because of the price.
tom.
ps. site looks well! also interested in what you used for the UI?
The UI. Well i am no designer so i just learned a few things about color and eye candy. One of them is rounded corners everyone loves them. Check out this site for generating them http://www.roundedcornr.com/
Thanks Peter. Sounds like you are using gsps for the UI. We have been using (Smart)GWT.
Hey there,
Thanks for sharing your experience. I need some inputs from you if you dont mind.
Actually I am planning to build a social networking site and since I am comfortable in web development using Java I got suggestions for using Grails. Do you think Grails can help me build this site using Javascript/Ajax etc. Also can you suggest some hosting options. Like how is GAE if you have any knowl.
I am dying to learn more about these plugins and try them out.
writing a ebook shouldn't involve giving up your intellectual propety rights to every hack and software pirate. Bravo for adding to the community knowledge and resource base!
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