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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2006-01-06 04:02 am
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A good day

So much Volity I'm seeing spots. Brush my teeth and go to bed.

Thanks to all betatesters so far... I'm sorry I'm being slow in putting out a new Javolin release. But I worked all day on fixing many subtly broken things in the game finder, which is also somewhat prettier now. It will get even better after I've had a chance to consult with my cohorts a bit tomorrow.

But yeah, I hate being a release engineer. What a crummy job. I keep putting it off for more interesting tasks. Really, I'll fix it tomorrow. Er, today.



Seed funding has started to appear, regardless of the fact that our contract with our investors lacks a verb in its first sentence. (Sigh. In consultation with lawyer about this.) Are presently racing to see how fast we can spend it on inventory, hosting, and maintenance for our in-house wizard.

Inventory? Yes. You'll see.



I love using to-do lists, outline-shaped ones with tick-offable items. I use Omni Outliner for this, which works great, except I end up filling up every folder in my home directory with a file called todo.ooutline. There has to be a better way about this. VoodooPad has outliney capabilities, but they're not nearly as nice to use as Omni's.

[identity profile] radtea.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
But yeah, I hate being a release engineer. What a crummy job. I keep putting it off for more interesting tasks. Really, I'll fix it tomorrow. Er, today.

You should learn to embrace your inner release engineer. The job has to be done. Way too many organizations spend far too much time supporting release processes that would be much improved if they just invested less effort in them, instead of making them such a low priority that they done in an unplanned and time-consuming rush at the end.

The installer is the second thing I create on any project, right after the application skeleton itself, and then I update it regularly. I tried avoiding this work for a long, long time, until I realized how much easier it was to do it than avoid it. Being basically lazy at heart, the rest was simple.