The Game's On

I'm doing a presentation on LightFrame in January in the office. For the presentation to leave people with a positive impression, I need to have something impressive to show. In order to show something impressive, LightFrame needs to be in working order. This means, I now have an actual deadline, not a made-up it-would-be-nice-if-I-could-make-it-deadline. So, yay, maybe I get something actually done!

I plan to have for display a bare-bones, minimally feature complete version by January 12:th. This means: the URL dispatcher, template engine, view mechanics and all model-related stuff would be complete (i.e. Alpha 1 release). Everything else will build on top of the core modules, and nothing substantially new would be added - at least for a while, not during Alpha 2. The emphasis, therefore, would be on getting a solid and rigid base to build upon. LightFrame will never be completely finished, but there will always be a potential for improvement. This is what I'll try to convey to people, the image of what LightFrame will become, and for this I need to show something convincing, even if it would be incomplete.

Good news: I have good faith in the current design of the Model-Entries-Field triad. It should be flexible enough to be able to grow. I don't know how I'll do implicit joins with join tables, but that won't make it into the Alpha 1 anyhow, so I won't bother myself with that right now. I have every reason to believe that during these two months I can get LightFrame into ship shape (poor pun intended).

I guess I need to make some time for reciting Made to Stick some day. And oh, would you look at that, I just ordered Presentation Zen and slide:ology.