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The AN Guide - Launch Day
Posted 22nd December 2007 at 11:25am by phlogiston
I often find it difficult to stop. To decide when a feature set is enough. To decide that yes, now is the time to release a project to the world. I always want to tinker and improve just that little bit more...
The AltNation Guide has been the Everest of that procrastination but today after months of coding myself and a couple of weeks of testing live on altnation.com, "THE GUIDE" got shown to the world.
Ten minutes later I had found more than half a dozen issues that need fixing. One fairly major critical bug that actually logs members out of the site. Luckily I was able to remove all mention, links and documentation of he offending page so no one knows it's lieing there broken.
Sleep at 7am and waking up again at 11am has left breakfast and and afternoon nap as higher priority that fixing things though. For a little while at least...
The AltNation Guide has been the Everest of that procrastination but today after months of coding myself and a couple of weeks of testing live on altnation.com, "THE GUIDE" got shown to the world.
Ten minutes later I had found more than half a dozen issues that need fixing. One fairly major critical bug that actually logs members out of the site. Luckily I was able to remove all mention, links and documentation of he offending page so no one knows it's lieing there broken.
Sleep at 7am and waking up again at 11am has left breakfast and and afternoon nap as higher priority that fixing things though. For a little while at least...
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