Somewhat Quiet

It has been quiet around here for the past few days. Mainly, this is due to the fact that my brain is going into warp speed, and I have had very little time to even think about the FuzzMeasure 1.1 launch. This launch was fairly successful, but it didn't make as much of a splash as I had expected. Admittedly, the 1.1 launch was not timed very well at all. Releasing software around the time of a Macworld Expo, especially one with many important announcements, is not generally a good idea. Furthermore, I think I botched up my Friday news submissions, and some of them didn't appear until Saturday when I finally decided to try re-submitting them. I'm sure my downloads and page views would have been far more, had the news gotten out in time. I guess you learn as you go along, and this was an important lesson in timing. Thankfully, I learned this well before trying to make a huge wave. To make up for the lack of splash, I'm going to try being a bit more active on a day-to-day basis in promoting FuzzMeasure. We'll soon see how that goes. Lately, I've been devoting most of my time to planning FuzzMeasure 1.2 and FuzzMeasure Pro. You may recall from a while back that I had been experimenting with cocoa bindings, but I had shelved it for the first few releases. Mainly, I did this to keep 10.2 compatibility, and I didn't have all that much use for it at the time. Now that I'm working on managing a lot more data in the Pro version, I am starting to give it a more serious look. I'm also focusing on solidifying my knowledge of Cocoa overall so that FuzzMeasure 1.2 and FuzzMeasure Pro are very polished, full-featured applications. I have grabbed a new Cocoa book which I'm flying through very quickly. While reading it, I am making sure that the introductory chapters are very familliar, and I am trying to make sure that I fill in any cracks that may be lingering in my Cocoa expertise along the way. I'm happy to report that I'm not really learning all that much, and taking a Cocoa book at this pace is simply reaffirming that I'm getting pretty good at this. Also, it is nice to read through a book with a final application in mind, so that you can recognize where certain concepts may be applied. I just got the book yesterday, and managed to hammer through about 1/3 of it already. I think I'll be going a little slower from this point on, though, because the exercises are actually interesting. It's fun to implement them in about 5-10 minutes. :) So, right now, I'm sitting on most of the code for 1.2 and Pro, all fully functional, but I'm studying to make sure that I put them together correctly, and minimize the amount of unnecessary work in the process. I'm sure some classes will need to be rewritten or extended, but I'm not too concerned about that. Pro and 1.2 may be a few months off, unless this book puts me in a better spot than I think it will. Also, I have to start making my code behave so that I can reuse a lot of classes between the two applications. Sorry for the long post. I should do this more often so that my ideas are separated a little bit better. :)