11am Again a slow start, I had to fix my car stereo. So what are the major obstacles to release a very limited “beta”…

1) The login into your aws account is not intuitive…so I’ll fix that first.

2) Some of the tools tips of the graph a not readable due to the font of the tool tip. It’s important as the graphs axis legends are not readable either..so at least fixing the tool tip will make it usable. I still have an open bug for the axis renderer.

3) Also not required but I will deploy the limited beta with licensing enable. So I have a license server and when starting the app it check the license (only once during registration). I want to make sure that this work as it must be a seamless experience for the user. 

Maybe I should call this an alpha version as there are still a few bugs open, but I also want to get some outside feedback as soon as possible. So it would be great  If I can get today the aws loign cleaned up.

12:31pm seems that it’s not that obvious to have my own login that hooksup to amazon, which make sense, and amazon doesn’t want your application just to post to their signin service without going through the proper process, they check that the form dong the post has an authorization token…so I could get that token then add it to the post, but this would become brittle.

1:15pm So I ended up restyling the built-in browser as follows. I assume users will get what’s going on and the process should be quite predictable.

2:15pm So 1) is as good as it gets for now and 2) was straight forward to fix thanks to CSS.I will now setup an online application that will host the online store to buy the application and that allows for the license verification.

5:40pm I’ve added several pieces of the server side puzzle, but I now have issues with the database migration on Enginyard  which simply reports a failure. Well…maybe I should try on Heroku instead and see if that goes better. But first let’s move to Panera Bread for a change in scenery.

8:46pm Great I have a online store, a license verification system. I can also now generate licenses to give away. Yea! Note the store is not wired up to a real merchant account only to a google sandbox. So I will need to wire it up to a real paypal and a real google merchant account. Also they are some limitations on running ssl certificates on Heroku due to the dynamic nature of their infrastructure and some constraints of ec2 which is their underlying infrastructure. So if I want to support ssl for Windows XP users then it cost an additional $100 when using Heroku. Dug!… They are working on solving that issue, so maybe I should use Engineyard after all…For now I will see how many people complain…Anyone still using XP out there that wants to buy my product?