2 New Projects

I have decided to put my micro-blogging project on hold and focus on a couple of new things. The main reason is that Twitter is starting to be (slightly) more reliable, plus there is now an open source alternative (identi.ca). I will still make something of the app I have written, but I think I may leverage it in an enterprise software offering (more on that when I get around to it).

My 2 new projects? One is based around a kind of 'meta friend" concept, and the other is a customizable social news app that I will use to launch a bunch of Australian focused sites. The basic app for this is about 50% complete after a couple of evenings work, so the first site should be ready to launch next week.

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Back at RealJob

Watched Pirates of the Caribbean 3 last night after reading blogs and sorting my app to-do list. Tonight I worked on a proposal. I am going to try and push through the barrier and get it completed tonight, but I might have to catch some sleep and finish it tomorrow night.

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Clean out

Back into RealJob today, after 2 full days of working on the app and 2 days working/family time. All up I've probably done about 30-35 hours the past 4 days, and have really got it close to "launch ready". I've pulled the site down from the web, as I filled it with junk that took a few hours to clear up, so the datastore is nice and pristine and ready to go. I just want to complete a few more features that I hadn't intended for launch, just to add that extra bit of incentive for new users. I'll likely make a call after next weekend whether or not to launch.

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Very tired

Two full days of coding and the app is really looking good. Still some tidy up to do with field validation and maintaining views across page submits, but it's really getting there. It should be ready for testing in a few days; I will need to clean up the datastore and put some sort of invite only thing in.

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More progress

Completed a few more items off the todo list last night, including likes and loves.

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