I’ve just published an updated design for the Moseycode website. It’s not going to win any Webby’s but it’s an incremental improvement.
With these cosmetic changes in place, I’ll be free to concentrate on filling the site with information and documentation related to Moseycode.
To get this off the ground, I’ve integrated my Moseycode related blog posts (like this one) into the site. But realistically, the site will remain just a shell until I start publishing the application and its source code.
Under the hood, there are a couple of new features:
A media upload facility is now available. Using this it will be possible to customize the appearance of barcodes you publish at the site. But it’s not possible to actually do this at the moment so I wouldn’t bother.
A new API is in place that allows third-party applications to authenticate users and list/publish moseycodes on their behalf. It’s a compact little HTTP based API that accomodates a simple & efficient implementation. When the Moseycode source code is released it will include a helper package for interacting with the API (which is definitely not stable at the moment).
It also features a small CAPTCHA library I wrote because I couldn’t use (or had good reason not to use) any of the available grails CAPTCHA plugins. It’s a bit hard to read at the moment - sorry about that. Naturally, I’ve managed to introduce a couple of bugs too so those might take a couple of days to iron out.
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