Well, it's time for another update on a project that I thought would be done a year ago, but is still in development. Not that I'm doing any worse than a lot of software Kickstarters, and y'all haven't paid me anything. The current status hasn't changed a whole lot, but we do have a bleeding-edge site up, and we're on to layout issues and working on a graphic design. Once the edge bleeds a bit less, I'll probably post it up here.
One of the things that I've learned over the past year is that I didn't really know how to do top-level management. It's easy to criticize other people's styles, but hard to do oneself. Evan and I have finally gotten around to setting up weekly phone meetings, and that seems to speed both of us along.
The YAPC:NA conference I mentioned earlier did in fact get me a full-time programming job, which has made things a lot more secure for me. It's also robbing me of my round tuits, and replacing them with cash. So while I have less time to work on this, hopefully being more organized will help to make up the difference.
The conference itself was a blast. I even got to have dinner with the Larry Wall of my sig quote, where we discussed programming, Japanese gesture communication, and his T-Shirt with Lum on it.
The other thing I'd like to note is the Tropes Mirror Wiki, which is on Wikia. They have a compatible license, so any edits you make over there can be turned over to ATT. I'm in touch with the current leadership over there, and I consider them to be relatively sane. Definitely saner than Fast Eddie, who believes the copying CC-SA content from TV Tropes is plagiarism, stealing, and all-around morally wrong. Start reading after the midpoint. (Just for clarity -- this is definitely not me, just people I am in contact with. I have much to little time to mess around with tvtropes.org these days ... especially when I have a local copy of the TVT data to reference.) Anyway, if you want to feel like writing on the Tropes Mirror Wiki, I'm totally down with that. I'm not so sure about uploading all of the content -- Wikia is kind of annoying about advertising, controlling content, and not allowing communities to move away.
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One of the things that I've learned over the past year is that I didn't really know how to do top-level management. It's easy to criticize other people's styles, but hard to do oneself. Evan and I have finally gotten around to setting up weekly phone meetings, and that seems to speed both of us along.
The YAPC:NA conference I mentioned earlier did in fact get me a full-time programming job, which has made things a lot more secure for me. It's also robbing me of my round tuits, and replacing them with cash. So while I have less time to work on this, hopefully being more organized will help to make up the difference.
The conference itself was a blast. I even got to have dinner with the Larry Wall of my sig quote, where we discussed programming, Japanese gesture communication, and his T-Shirt with Lum on it.
The other thing I'd like to note is the Tropes Mirror Wiki, which is on Wikia. They have a compatible license, so any edits you make over there can be turned over to ATT. I'm in touch with the current leadership over there, and I consider them to be relatively sane. Definitely saner than Fast Eddie, who believes the copying CC-SA content from TV Tropes is plagiarism, stealing, and all-around morally wrong. Start reading after the midpoint. (Just for clarity -- this is definitely not me, just people I am in contact with. I have much to little time to mess around with tvtropes.org these days ... especially when I have a local copy of the TVT data to reference.) Anyway, if you want to feel like writing on the Tropes Mirror Wiki, I'm totally down with that. I'm not so sure about uploading all of the content -- Wikia is kind of annoying about advertising, controlling content, and not allowing communities to move away.
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