The holidays always seem to creep up on me.
This is the first holiday season I have been at my new gig and we’ve been quite busy busting our asses to get everything in line for next year. So the past few weeks I haven’t had a lot of time to get work done on Type Aloud but that all changed earlier this week.
For the past couple of weeks I have been sitting on the code and focusing on getting the design done. That meant learning a lot of interaction in Rails that I did not know before, working on some CSS beautification and generally cleaning up the god awful standard forms that are generated through the Rails scripts. I decided earlier in the week that I would send out an e-mail to all of my testers and let them know I am planning on pushing a release candidate for their testing.
After some successful UX testing tonight I am going to try to push a new candidate each night for the foreseeable future. My plan is to release to beta on New Years eve flipping the switch on-or-around midnight in a ceremonious occasion which will involve the consumption of a lot of booze. But all that hinges on the UX and integration/functional testing that myself and my testers are going to perform.
Next week the goal is to send out the invite to everyone who has signed up for early access and shut off the form in preparation for the switch. So if you’re a writer, reader or poet and you’re interested in getting involved and helping me out feel free to sign up with your e-mail address. Its free, and I won’t sell them to some clearing house.
Good times are ahead!
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