OK, so DD… developer diary hasn’t been updated in ages. Well now I’m updating it because there’s lots happening with Dear Diary… and someone, somewhere might want to read whats going on before things are announced… There’s been a lot happening since the last entry posted by Matt back on the 16th October… Wow, that…
Work officially starts today on version 1.2 of Dear Diary, there may be some bend in the feature set for 1.2 yet but I think we’re mostly there and everything targetted for 1.2 should be done at the time we release since there’s really nothing major there, just a bunch of tweaks and improvements that…
Well, now that the coding is all done and the system is online and (seems to be) reasonably stable it seems the hard work just begins. Getting the message out about the system is very difficult, finding places that will advertise our site is quite hard. We’re on link exchange and they seem to be…
Today was our ‘planned’ launch date and sure enough it looks like the guys at Dedicated Servers (a Verio company) have kicked some butt internally and our server was ready and waiting for us when we got in this morning. It’s around to Steve’s tonight to get the system uploaded and working! Tonight comes and…
Well, they said it should be today but it doesn’t look good, we haven’t heard anything yet about it so we’re just biding our time. So far we’ve found three other services on the net that are similar to what we are trying to achieve however most of them seem to have focused on the…
As of the end of today Dear Diary v1.0 is ready to go. We have to get the new server up and running (hopefully Monday) and get Dear Diary installed on it but the code itself is now (to the best of our knowledge) done with all known bugs fixed. Woohooooo 🙂
Today we decided on a feature freeze. Having added extra functionality to our bug and feature tracking program we targetted all the current features at different versions and decided on a freeze for our initial 1.0 release. Our job now is not to add features but to get the existing ones up and running properly…
Steve and Paivi did some sterling work finding bugs with the customisation code last night so i’ve got to go through and fix a pile of those now 🙂 We also can now celebrate the addition of the ad-banner code finally having appeared. We are now serving ad-banners on the pages, Paivi commented that this…
Well, last night we brought the customisation interface online into the main application. It’s still not 100% there, but we’re talking a couple of hours more development and test before we’re fully happy with it so it’s close enough that testers can start getting their teeth into it and finding bugs that we’ve missed (of…
Well, we heard back from DigitalNation (A verio company!) about the server, they’re estimating that we get the server on October 4th so given that, the time to get the domain moved over to it and get everything installed, working and (hopefully) secure, we should be ready to go live the following Monday or maybe…