I'm getting pretty bad at keeping up to date this last month or so.

There really is not any exciting news to mention, I guess.

At Iodynamics, we found out a big client based in California that had given us the go-ahead on a good-sized web development project decided at a somewhat last minute to withdraw their support for Iodynamics doing the project and instead work with a local company. That threw a big wrench into our revenue projections and it got me a bit depressed. We talked about it and decided it wasn't going to mean layoffs or anything like that, although it's going to be tight for the next couple of months.

To make matters a little more annoying, we had already developed a separate website for this client and have been hosting it. It is, of course, a mod_perl-based site using a PostgreSQL database and Template Toolkit for presentation. The client said they would be taking that site "in-house" and one of their engineers would be in touch with us on moving the site to a server on their network.

Their engineer called and announced he wanted to move the site to a Windows server running IIS. It took me a while to clean my jaw up off the floor! He also asked us about running it on Windows with Apache, PostgreSQL, and mod_perl. I admitted it was possible, but I didn't recommend it. That's mostly because I could tell they had no expertise in setting up these software on Windows and I certainly never had any reason to do it.

In the end, we uploaded all our code to them and they'll take care of the porting. (Good luck!)

What a head-scratcher.