New Blog Application on the way: HighlyVisiblog

I like this blogging application ( typo ) but I don’t LOVE it.

There are certain things that “bug” me:

• Sometimes you get stuck in Cache Hell in the production environment where you just can’t get the thing to update!
• Performance is really horrible.. and I don’t know why. A blog is an incredibly simple application from a data architecture perspecitve. Even with caching, typo is slooooow. In the development environment it’s painful

That’s the worst of it and only half of the reason I’m building a new blog. The other half of the reason is:

• There is still no KILLER rails blog application. Typo is OK and Mephisto seems to be a dead project
• Why not. It’s creative, and I need that right now
• There are some features that I really want out of a blog that NO blogs do

So - it has begun. Already happily up and running in a development environment and will be rolled out in Beta for a listingly blog. It’s FAST, it’s INNOVATIVE and it’s DIFFERENT without being too different.