Wrapping up my last day at the office.
Same here! Making the jump from large corporation employment to startup life.
One more week here.
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#202Writing COBOL on an IBM mainframe:-) Updating a system for managing credit card portfolios.
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#203Well... I took the entire week off from my day job, so I could work on my startup project.
Some background: My stuff is all open-source, and I'd been working on it under a name that I'd picked out 2+ years ago. But development had kinda stalled out a while back, and I'd never aggressively promoted the project and tried to solicit much outside help. So I started working on it hard again earlier this year, but changed directions fairly substantially. Switched to coding in Groovy/Grails at the same time, and have made tremendous progress.
What I've done this week:
1. Write a pile of Groovy code, making fixes and tweaks to the actual project.
2. Renamed the open-source project, and started moving the development from java.net to a combination of Google Code and GitHub.
3. Spun up two new slices at Slicehost, and started building two new servers: One for infrastructure "stuff" (Bugzilla, Hudson, etc.) and one for a demo site where the public demo will live.
4. Started working on the "Community" section of my company website, which will contain information about the open-source side of things. I'm setting up something similar to the what JBoss has; with their site divided into "JBoss.com" and "JBoss.org" where the .org site is aimed towards developers and users of the open-source code
5. Need to rewrite all of the copy on the company website to reflect the new focus. I'm basically reusing a company name and domain I'd setup to use for doing consulting / freelance development... so the website talks about all of that, instead of the product I'm working on.
The goal is to have all of the code moved to Google Code / GitHub, have the public demo up and running, have Bugzilla installed and setup, and have all the new website copy done, before I go back to work on Monday.
Screenshots:
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#204An Android app that turns the phone into a simple SMS gateway, allowing you to deploy SMS apps anywhere in the world the phone works (without having to install complex hardware/software, deal with service providers etc) http://wiki.github.com/niryariv/txtgate/ Work environment: Java / Eclipse / Android (new to all of these, varying degrees of pain ;))
just checked it out. Is it for people with phones who can sms but aren't able to get on the internet?
What are the use cases?
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#205Telling my girlfriend's parents that she's getting married. :)
I'm doing the same in the next week :)
Considering a dowry joke with her father... but maybe not since it could really wrong, really fast.
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#206I am working on stuffing my face with burgers and chips prior to going back to the land of noodles and raw fish. Plus customer support emails, since birthdays and bridal showers don't stop just because I am on vacation.
Why go back to Japan if you are not Japanese salaryman anymore?
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#207Writing a device driver
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#208I migrated http://wasitup.com from Tokyo Tyrant to Redis.
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#209Http://Like.fm, a social music site I've been working on since being on hiatus from college.
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#210working on the ui components of the next gen Kindle :P Other than that, finishing up the ipad/iphone version of a children story I have been working at home. Almost there.... kinda cute actually.
Is it going to ever support ePub? That's the only reason I haven't gotten one (and just ordered a Nook instead.)