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I’ve been cranking away diligently trying to get some useable software in your hands by the end of year! It’s looking like I’ll be able to make that happen! I’m pulling everything together and planning to release what I have on December 26th.

Here’s a summary of progress since the last update.

I changed the architecture of the cloud service component. Right now it only handles signups and logins but I hope to expand it so it compliments the client and server components down the line.

I’ve re-architected it more times than I’d like to a admit from PHP to Node and finally to Python. I’m really happy with Python powered setup and I think it’s the best toolset to enhance the client and server components which are both in JavaScript.

On the client side I integrated the cloud service signup and login capabilities. I’ve also been re-factoring coffeescript out of the mix and I’m just about finished having everything back in beautiful pure JavaScript.

I’ve learned a lot about building large scale Backbone.js powered applications over the last few months and it’s great to see this knowledge translate into the client-side app. While re-factoring I swapped out Jasmine for the Mocha test suite and recently crossed the 50+ mark for unit tests!

I’m really grateful for all your support and look forward to sharing the first version of the app next week!