Yesterday I started working on a small website

Yesterday is started working on a small website for publishing and managing updates for Sparkle (AKA appcasts).

I guess I want to automate my workflow a bit for Queued. I’m currently using Google App Engine to host my updates, but the whole workflow is cumbersome - need to prepare the app file, write down details about the version (build no and version), update the file and upload it.

I wish I could do this with one command. I want to build the app and send it somewhere and be done with it.

So with a little help of ruby, sinatra, bootstrap, amazon web services and heroku this idea is getting real.

What I’m going to do to simplify the process?

• I’m going to publish Sparkle framework that will be customized for the site (source code will be available at github)
• I’m going to write a command line app to will allow easy uploads to the site
• I’m going to give a nice endpoint for downloading the latest version (so you can use it on your product site)
• I’m going to give you some stats

Interested? Go and log in! It doesn’t work now, but you’ll be remembered and notified about updates :-)

In the end you’ll be able to run an appcast in less that 5 minutes!