About Tidey

I’d like to introduce Tidey.

Tidey is a tide prediction application that uses xtide to make tide predictions and provides a fun web UI.

Tidey is a 3-fold personal experiment. The goals I had/have for Tidey are:

• Build a project using pure Tornado (i.e. not mixed with Django) to evaluate it
• Practice using RaphaelJS and JSON
• See what kind of advertising revenue a simple site can generate with a small amount of work

Tornado is cool, but only for certain applications. I wouldn’t want to build an application like a church management system using Tornado. Django provides the absolutely amazing built-in admin tool that is indispensable IMHO. Tornado has no such thing. That said, Tornado is useful for certain types of applications and used in conjunction with Django could prove very useful. For this application I am using it to asynchronously run xtide in the background. The server itself is a single thread process.

Raphael JS is very cool.

Only time will tell on the advertising.

I spent about 20-30 hours on this project. I would still consider it beta.