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Testing is going along swimingly. I’m quite happy with the core team (of about 6 testers) who have been taking some valuable time and running the site through it’s paces. They’ve been discovering some problems and submitting good, detailed and thoughtful bug reports, and for that, I am very very grateful.

In fact, I’m going to do something nice for our testers. I am not saying what yet, but if you are one of them, and you helped out, I’ll be getting in touch with you. I am very appreciative

I believe the launch date of this Saturday is going to happen. It most likely will be late Saturday night, because, of all things I have to do, I have to attend a wedding that afternoon. I know, family stuff comes first

Much progress has been made, and I’m feeling rather enthusiastic over this launch and the new version of the site. Everything just works (right now it does). I know there will be problems, and things will come up (I’ve been in this business for too long to know that it won’t), but I am confident that what does come up will be easily handled and the days of the site being down for days or even weeks on end are over. I want this to be a success. I want to make a real and meaningful contribution to this community. I think its important.

So, we are, so far, all systems go. Testing will be wrapping up here in the next few days. I’ll probably spend the latter part of this week getting ready for the data scrub and migration, as well as getting the code base moved over into the production environment. There is a fair bit of systems configuration I have to do, mostly getting the application server tuned up. But for the most part, we are all set.

Again, I just want to extend a big “thank you” to those who helped (and are still helping) to test the site.

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