Nov. 8th, 2013

Milestones

Nov. 8th, 2013 08:36 am
jducoeur: (querki)
Endless waiting, endless delay. So many distractions, all of them important, but each one another little delay.

And then the excuses end.

Change the number. Check it in. git pull. Compile. Go.

Alpha.


It is hard to express how utterly *terrifying* it is to expose the system to the light of day, after more than a year of planning. I am so horribly conscious of the fact that this is barely 10% of the vision -- how limited the functionality still is, and how many bugs there are. But we're definitely up to the point where it is *useful*, if far from a work of art yet, so it's time to start getting other folks' input.

I'll be inviting a few folks to join in my own Spaces today, and beginning to slowly upgrade people to full-User status. (The difference is basically whether you can create your own Spaces.) It'll be gradual over the next month -- ideally a couple of people a week -- but if you'd like to kick the tires, please drop me a note (or comment here) and I'll add you to the list.

(And a voice in the back of my mind is cackling maniacally -- "IT'S ALIVE! MY CREATION IS ALIIIIVE!".)
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Engineers looking for a bit of food for thought should go take a look at this magnificently sardonic presentation, a recent talk on the next forty years of software engineering -- from the viewpoint of 1973. The mildly depressing upshot is that, in the grand scheme of things, we have made *astonishingly* little progress in the intervening decades, mostly because the industry got locked into a very stultified mindset.

Well worth the half hour. And I have to say, stuff like this makes me happier about the approach I've taken to Querki, throwing out as many assumptions as possible and just building the system I want to *use*...

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