Event Server Software

For the last ten years I have ran my event server software using my PERL based server. Every year I have lovingly upgrading this software. I upgraded the client side from browser based to IOS app based three years ago. This year I am totally rewriting the server software once again. It will the first year (sadly), I will not be using Perl. Every OS upgrade, I seem to have some issues with Perlmagick and since my goal is to productize the event server software, I decided to try to write it as a 100% Mac App. First I tried cocoa photo manipulation routines - too basic. Next I discovered SIPS. Cool but still not flexible enough. Then the obvious hit me why not just use a basic install of ImageMagick (not perlmagick) with the Mac app. The iPad client app communicates with the server app using Bonjour as opposed to calling perl scripts  and receiving XML back like last year. It simplifies the IOS app immensely. So far so good, should be finished within a week. After Christmas I will make a marketable version that will work with both advanced photo lab printers such a Noritsu or standard event printers such as a DNP DS40.