Tutorial Seek Development Blog

For the past couple of days, I have been working on the API’s, also known as Application Program Interface. What these API’s do is expand and extend the functionality of the site, making it easier to manage and to ensure a smoother operation. Intead of having multiple repetations of line code all over the site, I can just have one in which the API can be changed, altered and modified leaving results being immediately made sitewide.

The SeekBot API will be one of the most important functions and class that I will use. This API will control the tutorial search bot which would crawl each site, adding newly found tutorials into the database for listing. Currently, I am at approximately 150 lines of code, but I expect a good 500 when I am finished with this class. What is necessary for this class is to ensure logic is not being wasted but implimented to make it fast as possible to keep the server load to a minimum. This spider will definately be a large resource eater. I am sure of it.

I have planned to get a few concept designs done for the site itself. What I am looking for is a nice simple - yet sleek web 2.0 template. Nothing too fancy here, just minimal and efficient enough to get the job done and the message across to the user. Since this is a tutorial search engine, it needs to be fast loading which needs to be a first priority because unfortunately for web developers, 56k dialup users still exist.