I'm happy to announce that filewrangler 2.0.0 is officially released. Website will reflect this shortly, so be sure to keep reading the blog for current details.
Download filewrangler 2.0.0 here.
Download the filewrangler 2.0.0 manual here.
I'm happy to announce that the BETA was released to a select group of testers yesterday. I've posted a first screenshot and more details in the blog.
file_wrangler_2 has been seeded to a small group of testers. The blog keeps you abreast from here on out, but I still feel on track for an early June release.
I have a new machine for development purposes and its been great so far.A review is up and the long and short of it is that it is a solid machine that curiously doesn't feel so "night and day" different from my 4+ year old system as I expected. Oddly enough, Windows 7 Professional on it feels really great.
If you haven't been following the blog lately you may be interested to know that much progress has been made on file_wrangler_2. Good speed, good features, and good ideas continue to be poured into the project. Time on the project must also be balanced with other requirements of life on Earth, but I'd say we're currently looking at an early June release.
Thoughts I've had for a while now were finally put into words with some semblance of coherence. It struck me that in trying to apply software solutions to a business workflow, oftentimes the workflow must accommodate the software's way of thinking. This struck me as a Good Idea™ and so Encapsulating the Worker: An Object-Oriented Approach to Business Workflow has some ideas about how the principles of good software design can be extended into our thinking about how to organize business processes.
I'm chronicling a one week push to go through Aaron Hillegass' book "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X, 3rd Edition", five chapters a day for one week. This project takes a bit of a Scrum sprint approach with its definition of "done" for the project as well as its time-boxed nature. Will I be able to do it and still find time to do things like eat a meal, or enjoy a conversation with a friend? Read on, and find out!
As part of my commitment to those who have supported me in the past, as well as potential new customers and clients, I am embracing a kind of open development policy. While the code I write will be proprietary (check out my Codeshare section for freebies), the process I intend to keep open and transparent. This comes from my training as a Certified ScrumMaster and my development days at Macy's advertising. If you are interested in updates on specific software, or would like to see how the development process works from the inside-out, I encourage you to read my blog.