Long Time No See?

by Eric March on October 20, 2008 at 9:49 am

Yeah, I know. Not only have I been a relative stranger around here the last few weeks, we’ve slowed to a crawl too. We seem to be doing this too often, but I do apologize for the relative lack of activity around here. Here’s the scoop:

I’ve been focusing a lot of effort on Frapstr since its debut on September 30th. (Technically the 29th, but it was late, and who’s counting anyway?) Aside from the first week’s worth of site and DNS issues, I’ve also spent a fair bit of time tweaking, adding, removing, and generally improving Frapstr’s look ‘n feel so that it remains familiar to Touch Podium users but also caters more to the needs of its subject matter and generally makes things easier to navigate and is hopefully easy on the eyes. I’ve spent a considerable amount of time trying to implement just the right combinations of things to achieve this goal, and although I don’t feel that I’m there yet, I think I’m getting closer.

Besides that though, the App Store itself has been fairly spilling over with new releases. I have seen more new new releases (both premium and free) over the last week and a half than I have seen over the same period at any other time since the App Store opened. (The first day notwithstanding.) I don’t know if it’s because there’s been a glut of new developers or whether a lot of existing developers just happened to release new titles and updates around the same time. Probably a little from column A and a little from column B. Either way, the App Store has become a veritable bustling metropolis over the past three and a half months, and since it’s a one man blog, I can’t even hope to keep up with every new release at this pace.

Part of the reason for that — and this will only become even more evident and intrusive over the next little while — is the third thing: Our next project. We like to play things close to the vest so I can’t say anything specific about it (though there’s a clue in here somewhere), but I can say that this is going to be our biggest endeavour yet, both Jody’s and mine, and it’s going to require a considerable amount of time, effort, and focus, and it’s going to take every resource we have to complete.

We already have more or less everything we need to do it (with one notable exception that is only partially taken care of), but right now we are taking that proverbial hardest-first-step — and we’re doing it with both feet.

Yes, this is the fourth addition to The Podium Network we’ve alluded to in the past (fifth if you count The Podium Network itself), though it’s probably not what you think (i.e. another blog to neglect). All I can say is that it’s going to be most righteous and worth the wait and occasional (perhaps frequent) pains in the rump wondering where the hell we are and why we aren’t feeding our own blogs with a steady diet of fresh dish.

Yes, we do tend to bite off more than it seems like we can chew. It builds character. But we’re hungry, damnit, and while we know you are too, we’ve got gourmet fare of a different sort cooking. Have patience, faith, valium, whatever you need. You’ll see what we’re serving up soon enough. Hopefully you’ll all like it. Don’t worry, we fired that one rude waiter that said that thing about your mother and replaced him with an AI construct written in Objective C that totally fooled the Turing test judges into thinking it was a well-corned Scotsman with ADD.

I’m going to try and post a few things today though. (Operative word: Try, as one never knows what my regular work day will bring.)

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