Almost finished

I've been madly working on a new web site that uses the FriendFeed API. It's been an interesting week. The goal was to try and do the whole thing in a single page using JavaScript and I've been maybe 80% successful. There are a few things that I need interaction for, and so I've had to give myself a crash course in PHP, a language I've always avoided (I mainly use Java). I've actually found it quite easy to pick up, and it seems very quick to develop with. I think that it may become a bit unwieldy when used for a large site, but I will only have a few pages so I should be good.

The other benefit of using PHP is that I can sign up for a much cheaper hosting service and see how that goes. at the moment I have a dedicated server running, so I might try and migrate off that if I can. I think I'll try and learn Ruby on Rails as well and see if I can migrate my apps to that. Java is good, but it does take a long time to get anything done using the full Struts2/Spring/Hibernate stack.

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