Crazy week or so
I tell you what, I felt like an anxious parent when I went off on holiday. Entrecard has been going solid for 2 months now, and normally by that point I have all the bugs sorted and everything is nice and stable in an app.
However Entrecard has been different from many of my projects for a number of reasons, not the least of which has been the sheer pace of change. Nearly every bug fix goes hand in hand with some new feature or cleanup, and we have a user community who are constantly pushing the limits of what they can do.
Needless to say, all of this combined to mean that I was going on holiday wondering whether anything would be standing when I got back.
Ok, not really. I have a Nokia e61 which lets me check in on things and do emergency work if needed, plus we have monitoring etc so I wasn't blind, but going away from my desktop was still a little bit harder than usual.
Started "working" again when I got back on New years day, although I doubt anybody noticed I was gone since I still found myself reading the forums and posting etc - only thing that was different was that the response time for bug fixes took a dive until I got back.
Kicked out the new shiny release today. Along with the usual stack of bug fixes, including one infuriating messagebox issue to do with the content renderer, we have a bunch of new stuff in the shop in preparation for all the contest people getting their seller tokens. The browse interface is still ugly as hell but I'll get on that asap once we've got a few more entries in and I can get an idea of what people are putting up. The shop item stuff is pretty cool - along with the usual stuff you can create "keyed" items that exist for a limited number of uses or times. These items can then be queried via a couple of methods to see whether the user has an active one.
You can use this to create, for example, a "pass" which lets people into an area of your site (requires a little bit of coding on your part), so people can simply buy a pass on Entrecard, then go to your site and view your "backstage" section (or whatever) all automatically.
This is all a bit experimental at the moment but we should have it bedded down over the next couple of days. Fun times.
However Entrecard has been different from many of my projects for a number of reasons, not the least of which has been the sheer pace of change. Nearly every bug fix goes hand in hand with some new feature or cleanup, and we have a user community who are constantly pushing the limits of what they can do.
Needless to say, all of this combined to mean that I was going on holiday wondering whether anything would be standing when I got back.
Ok, not really. I have a Nokia e61 which lets me check in on things and do emergency work if needed, plus we have monitoring etc so I wasn't blind, but going away from my desktop was still a little bit harder than usual.
Started "working" again when I got back on New years day, although I doubt anybody noticed I was gone since I still found myself reading the forums and posting etc - only thing that was different was that the response time for bug fixes took a dive until I got back.
Kicked out the new shiny release today. Along with the usual stack of bug fixes, including one infuriating messagebox issue to do with the content renderer, we have a bunch of new stuff in the shop in preparation for all the contest people getting their seller tokens. The browse interface is still ugly as hell but I'll get on that asap once we've got a few more entries in and I can get an idea of what people are putting up. The shop item stuff is pretty cool - along with the usual stuff you can create "keyed" items that exist for a limited number of uses or times. These items can then be queried via a couple of methods to see whether the user has an active one.
You can use this to create, for example, a "pass" which lets people into an area of your site (requires a little bit of coding on your part), so people can simply buy a pass on Entrecard, then go to your site and view your "backstage" section (or whatever) all automatically.
This is all a bit experimental at the moment but we should have it bedded down over the next couple of days. Fun times.
Labels: entrecard shop
posted by PhiRatE at
1:08 AM
1 Comments:
Cool feature man... now I just need to think of what I can offer in a super secret area... hmmm.
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