Almost two years ago, I announced the launch of http://letmebingthatforyou.com/, a blatant and obvious rip-off of the Let me Google that for you website.
The initial site was created by Maarten Balliauw and Juliën Hanssens in response to a call for help I made. It was just something we did for fun. I’ve been maintaining the site privately always intending to spend some time to refresh the code and open source it.
Just recently, I upgraded the site to ASP.NET MVC 3, refactored a bunch of code, and moved the site to AppHarbor.
Why AppHarbor?
I’ve heard such good things about how easy it is to deploy to AppHarbor so I wanted to try it out firsthand myself, and this small little project seemed like a perfect fit.
I had been working on the code in a private Mercurial repository so it was trivially easy for me to push it to a BitBucket repository. From there it’s really easy to integrate the BitBucket account with AppHarbor.
So now, my deployment workflow is really easy when working on this simple project:
- Make some changes and commit them into my local HG (Mercurial) repository. I have my local repository syncing to all my machines using Live Mesh.
- At some point, when I’m ready to publish the changes, I run the hg push command on my repository.
- That’s it! AppHarbor builds my project and if all the unit tests pass, it deploys it live.
I’m not planning to spend a lot of time on Let Me Bing That For You. It’s just a fun little side project that allows me to play around with ASP.NET MVC 3, jQuery, etc. If you want to look at the source, or contribute a patch, check it out on BitBucket.