Now that I'm done with development driven only by my sense of what would be a good feature, it's time to move to step #2 in my year-old feature plan: deploying an alpha site. I'm no longer certain about the second half of that plan -- other projects have presented themselves as opportunities that might have a more technically sophisticated user base, and thus might present … [Read more...] about What's next?
Chris Wehner's SoldierStudies.org
This is the first of two reviews of similar transcription projects I wrote in correspondence with Brian Cafferelli, an undergraduate working on the WPI Manuscript Transcription Assistant. In this correspondence, I reviewed systems by their support for collaboration, automation, and analysis. SoldierStudies.org is a non-academic/non-commercial effort like my own. It's a … [Read more...] about Chris Wehner's SoldierStudies.org
Feature Triage for v1.0
I've been using this blog to brainstorm features since its inception. Partly this is to share my designs with people who may find them useful, but mainly it's been a way to flush this data out of my brain so that I don't have to worry about losing it. Last night, I declared my app feature-complete for the first version. But what features are actually in it? Let's do some … [Read more...] about Feature Triage for v1.0
Whew
I've just finished coding review requests, the last feature slated for release 1.0. I figure I've completed 90% of the work to get to 1.0, so I'll dub this check-in Version 0.5. The next step is to deploy to a production machine for alpha testing, which I expect will involve at least a few more code changes. But from here on out, every modification is a bug fix. I'll try to … [Read more...] about Whew
Podcast Review: Matt Mullenweg at 2006 SF FOWA
Matt Mullenweg is an incredible speaker -- I've started going through the audio of every talk of his I can find online. His presentation at the 2006 Future of Web Apps (mp3, slides) is a review of the four projects he's worked on, and the lessons he's learned from them. It's a fantastic pep talk, and it's so meaty that I sometimes thought editing glitches had chopped out the … [Read more...] about Podcast Review: Matt Mullenweg at 2006 SF FOWA