It has been a while since I written anything here, I’d like to tell myself that I am just busy and not procrastinating, but that would not be true. I do find time to watch House, so there is no excuse. On the other side, I am very busy. At work we are rolling out a new project, well it is not completely new, but in it’s old form, the project was not used at all, had too many bugs and looked like garbage. Have to say that we are on the final phase of the project, will release a beta version soon.
This would be the first time we used an external GUI dll, and I am quite happy with results. DotNetBar is a great library, and I am positive that we will use it for all our user interfaces; after all, when you have more then one app and all of those have a different look to them, kind of makes you want to re-work it all. That’s what we are doing presently.
New version of Rosetta is coming out soon too, everyone worked hard, and it feels like we are all burned out right before holidays, at least we will have few days to relax and get into the holiday spirit before going back to work.
This has been a crazy couple of weeks. Finally all coding for the newest release of Rosetta is done, we are now fixing bugs. Guys have done great job adding two huge features which I am sure our clients will be happy about. We also done bunch of smaller things that will improve usability and help save even more time. Plus tweaked performance, but this is an ongoing battle.
This has been a very difficult release to prepare. We just hired another great developer – Will who despite my expectation did not require much of hand-holding and was able to just dive into it and make some great things happen. My other guys had to do features with no set of final specs, it seemed to change with every week but managed to do great so far. Considering the fact that our support guy Paul was doing lot’s of travel and we had to pick up those duties as well, we did reasonably well. Dave is supposed to announce this release at the conference at the end of the month, would be great if we could actually finish it by then.
Actually after this release Dave is planning on visiting most of our clients and having a talk about the direction the software is going. Should be good as we love getting realistic feedback and not just generic – “Look good, will probably use it”.
When I came to then ATP Canada, Rosetta was 1.3. We had two developers – Matt and I; back then we had to work as a fire brigade all the time. We also managed sales and support as well as coding. Now we are looking at 3.1, have great team of developers, dedicated support / sales person and things are looking very optimistic.
I am actually looking forward to this release, after this one there are going to be some major changes in product lines and frameworks, should be fun.