If you’re using Rails, here’s a plugin to get your mobile publishing efforts jumpstarted: http://intridea.com/2008/7/21/mobilize-your-rails-application-with-mobile-fu

We converted our paid comics service from MyComicsPage.com to Gocomics Pro today. If you have an account, login to enjoy all of the new functionality. Need an account? Let me know.

This release is a major improvement thanks to the hundreds of subscribers who gave us feedback during the 5 month beta release. We did our best to integrate the most popular suggestions and even more are on the way.

Integrating the feedback into the release schedule was possible because of a larger change in our development platform and methodology. Our small development team (2 full time, 1 contract) decided early on that we could gain more functionality in less time by switching platforms from a perl-based system to Ruby on Rails. We also adopted a modified agile development methodology and stressed weekly iterative releases more than we ever have in the past. The result is that we were able to get user feedback quickly and change the product functionality as needed.

Our next major release will integrate the paid-user experience with the free-user experience, giving the non-paid users and increase in community and shareable features. Stay tuned!