Well, it's done.  UtahFEAT.org has been converted to a simplified and more attractive website which will cost me less to host and maintain going forward.  I'd like to thank the technological shoulders on which I "stand" that made the new site possible:

• CORS
• RESTful Development
• Ajax
• JSON
• JQuery
• MongoDB
• Twitter Bootstrap
• Heroku

Generally speaking, this list of technologies suits me very well... offering simple, powerful tools with low barriers to entry and wide adoption that makes web development a breeze.

We also have a new Google Group mailing list for members, although there has been little interest in it so far.  (Okay, so I invited like, ten people... and nobody joined.)  The address for the old mailing list (feat_members@utahfeat.org) will still work, and will send e-mail to the new Google Group.

It's been too long...

It's been over 5 years since the UtahFEAT website was put up with an early version of Ruby on Rails and a MySQL database.  It's been "fun" maintaining it over the years, but the data has been hard to keep up to date and the changes in technologies have forced me to remove some functionality little by little and focus on what I think the most useful features of the website are (mostly the list of goods/service providers).

I've recently been experimenting with a radical simplification of the website which should allow me to to host it less expensively, have it look more appealing (and modern) and be simpler to maintain for me going forward.  (If you're interested, I'm just using JavaScript/JQuery, a ReSTful interface to a hosted MongoHQ.com database).

Look for a radical update and refreshed data within the next couple of days.