Sunday, May 18, 2008

Epic Update Fail

I seem to have neglected this blog, which has not been the purpose at all.

The downtime in activity on this blog is just a cause of time prioritizing. As I've started a day job programming stuff, my juices run low at the end of the day. So I squeeze everything I have into actually getting LightFrame some meat around its bones. In other words, the project is alive and pretty well.

To give a rundown of the recent events, I'm still working on the actual website that runs on LightFrame. Things go along a bit sluggishly, as I implement the missing stuff as I go. Currently I'm doing a generic CRUD that I could use as an admin page for the project, and it's coming along surprisingly nicely. The website is nearing completion, so once it is ready and out of my hair, I can concentrate on getting LightFrame towards Developer Release 1.

To see what I'm up to, you should take a look at the Assembla project space. What I'm doing there is posting tickets (todos mostly) and updating them as I make progress. The wiki is also something to take a look at, as I'm dumping my brain there as I see fit. It's not yet complete, and is still desynchronized with the Google Code wiki, which is a shame (and a low-priority, too). The Git repository found at Assembla is updated very rarely. I'll push something once I get something half-decent and working. Most probably after I clean up some code once I get some new features polished and done that have risen from the current web project.

To sum it up, the pace has slowed down a bit, but I'm still allocating everything I've got to LightFrame. It inches forward, and I have every intention to get it in a publishable shape.

I'm confident that once I get Developer Release 1 out, the framework gets its first group of persons I dare call an 'audience'. This leads to feedback, which leads to constructive development, which leads to better quality, which leads to a larger audience and we have a benign cycle on our hands here. But before I start conquering the world, I better start with my own back yard. Actually, I'll start with my bed.

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