I'll be interested in seeing how this works. I only occasionally build sites on WordPress, but every time I do, I struggle to come up with a reasonable deployment process.
Being able to update plugins and the WP core through the admin panel makes it easy for your server and source code to become out of sync. The configuration file also needs to change for production databases. From what I've seen, there's no agreed upon way to deal with these issues.
Hey everyone. Taylor from Imulus here. I'm the front-end developer leading up Support Details.
Thanks for all of the positive and constructive comments. We're really excited to take Support Details to the next level, and based on your comments, I think our ideas on the right track. As of late, we've been focusing on the accuracy and speed of the site (see http://imulus.com/blog/bryce/javascript/support-details-on-r...), but now that we've got that nailed down, we're excited to start rolling out some new features.
As an agency focused on client work, we've struggled in the past to make time for our own products, but we're set on making them a priority this year, so thanks again for the positive comments to encourage us to move forward.
The site seems very fast, so good job. Without being able to see a non-obscured application.js, the javascript gurus here can't be of much help. The cloudfront is doing a good job with the caching, but you could shave off 10 HTTP requests by doing a sprite of the background images (just like you did with sprite.png, although the download.gif could be moved in there too.)
I love seeing developers raise their hand on HN and say "I did this!" And kudos to you the project so far!
Being able to update plugins and the WP core through the admin panel makes it easy for your server and source code to become out of sync. The configuration file also needs to change for production databases. From what I've seen, there's no agreed upon way to deal with these issues.