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Not that the average customer would care, but the Precursor web site has gone through a major recoding recently! I finally retired our NetCloak driven customer service web site and rewrote everything using modern best practices. NetCloak was a plugin architecture that debuted for WebStar and was upgraded to work with OS X and apache web servers. NetCloak utilized a natural english programming language that was incredibly easy to use and allowed us to build a sophisticated customer service web-site that was customized to individual client's needs.
Unfortunately, development on NetCloak halted around OS X 10.5 and to make it run on OS X 10.6 and higher involved some heavy duty home-made workarounds. Finally, I had to bite the bullet and recode the entire site using technologies like Sever Side Includes, PHP, and Perl scripts. As a result, the site is now faster, more secure (completely HTTPS) and offers some highly requested new features. For those who enjoy tales of geekery the complete story is available in our revised WebSite Odyssey document that first appeared during our 20th Anniversary celebrations in 2014.
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