In publishers line ups at the moment there are many books which go into detail (or not for some of them) on using a specific technology or service. For example there are books on using Amazon AWS, or Google App Engine, trouble is with the pace of these technologies the details are normally quite out of date by the time the book is published.
What isn't in the line up is anything that can pull the different technologies together and demonstrate through a common cookbook type approach getting an application up and running using a number of technologies that have to work together.
So my current thoughts are to use this platform to publish work in progress in putting together a simple game that will:
- be a facebook application using their authentication and authorisation system for seamless user handling
- be hosted on the Google App Engine framework using Python as that is easier within this type of publication to demonstrate and also easier to develop without a build step.
- as the game will be a turn based two player game (like most two player board/card games) it is a good prospect for using a comet like approach to allow a fast pace without excessive polling.
- have a cut down mobile friendly portal as well so that users can continue to play while on the move. This may even result in a mobile application targeting something like the Symbian 60 platform - after all there are hundreds of millions of those out there.
This is a side project, not my main job, and so there is no guarantee of frequency of updates, which means that things could go in bursts depending upon what else I'm doing at the time.
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