I hated to do it, but lets be realistic. Its already September the 28th, and so far this month I’ve logged about 10 total hours on the development of DiyShare. There is probably more like 80 more hours required, if I had to estimate it, so I am pushing the launch date back to Halloween. Basically I’m giving myself the month of October to complete the development and testing. There is already something like 50 or so hours already invested in the development, so a good chunk of work has already been done, and while I am discouraged with having to do this, I am not overly so, because of the work that’s already been put into the site.
September has just been an insanely busy month for us. Lots of things going on that has required our time and that means that Diysearch and its associated projects takes a back seat. There are still a number of features I need to add for our Editor that I haven’t gotten to yet. Juggling the priorities is difficult because, while our editor needs the tools to effectively do her job, they have to be weighed with getting DiyShare finished. Often, tools for Diysearch have taken a priority in that Diysearch is a production system, its live and is actively being used, so that means a new system (DiyShare) gets pushed back.
It’ll get there. A little less time with the Warcraft and in 5 weeks it should be ready.
Well, the server move is all done, and everything is up and ready. Aside from the fact that I completely slept in and our editor let me know by asking “uh, do you know the site’s down?” Something had happened in one of the more obscure apache settings (that I wasn’t even using at the time) that wasn’t letting the HTTP server from coming up completely, so it was unable to server requests. That’s why if you were trying to look at the site earlier this morning you couldn’t get the darn page to load. Sorry about that… my fault.
Anyway, the move is complete, we are on the new “phat pipe” and hopefully you should notice an improvement in performance (not that performance was bad, because it wasn’t) but improvements are always good.
Next time something like this happens, I’ll set an alarm and get my lazy bum out of bed to make sure everything is working right, immediately, now 4 hours after the fact.
As the design and development progresses on DiyShare, and because I’ve quickly become a fan of the Agile-like way of doing development, I’ve released a first “version” of the home page. There’s nothing there right now but a simple message with a more descriptive, er, description of what DiyShare is going to be. The design is pretty well settled, but I’m not going to let that stop me from re-thinking things and Sol (our editor) will want to make tweaks to things here and there. This is all part of the process.
So, stop by and go look (leave your comments here)
http://www.diyshare.com
