Definitive Guide to Plone (2nd Ed)

Wed, 17 Jun 09, 21:36:19 filed in Plone

The day the first edition of the Definitive Guide to Plone arrived, my brand new baby Emily was pictured with the book. Here she is at 5 with her sister Samantha holding the second edition. I can't claim any credit for the second book, it was all done by the fine people at Redomino.

I had a quick glance through and it looks really good, I hope it does well - Buy from Amazon.

It's amazing to think what has happened in my life since that book came out and this picture sums it all up for me.

That's why there's Arecibo

Wed, 17 Jun 09, 18:41:29 filed in Arecibo

A simple example of why you should be using Arecibo from Twittch (Eric Burke)

Talk at Open Web Vancouver

Fri, 12 Jun 09, 18:57:20 filed in Ajax services

Just gave this talk at Open Web Vancouver, 2009.

Slides are here:

Cross Domain Web
Mashups with JQuery and Google App Engine

Code is here: http://svn.clearwind.ca/public/projects/presentations/open-vancouver-09/

The demo's are here:

When to put a product to pasture

Tue, 09 Jun 09, 00:03:41 filed in General

I've been working on a product for a while, but it's not getting much traction. It's spent a lot of time in my head and taken up my time and energy. I'd planned on giving it a few months, but it's now past that schedule.

Every time I describe it to someone they say "that's great!". But little uptake, I looked at the numbers on the site and it's not very much and I can't keep justifying it.

It's hard after I've worked on something for so long to just stop working on it for a while. But there's at least one thing that keeps me hopeful that it will not die - I find it damn useful and use it all the time (and a few other people do too).

Perhaps I've fallen for all the 37 Signals and others advice. Work on things you find useful and enjoy and others will too. If I find it useful I'll keep working on it, improving it and telling others about it things might start to change.

Keep adding in things now and again, as time permits on the back burner.... but in the end time to move focus. Could be Seth Godin is right and the product is boring.

Time to do something more exciting... so watch this space.

Tech news via Rock 101

Mon, 08 Jun 09, 23:46:41 filed in General

I heard the tech news on Rock 101 today. Something like:

Microsoft have announced Windows 7 will be out in October. This replaces Windows Vista... blah, blah, blah

It really is a different world, because I didn't know or care about that in the slightest compared to the other news today.