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The Home Office

Posted 30th December 2007 at 5:48pm by phlogiston

Working from home is great. No commute, no boss looking over your shoulder, no dress code, no stress, no hassle. Most of the time that is.

Discipline can be awkward. Yesterday for example. The plan was to work straight through the day & night on optimising a couple of features for the AN Guide (geek: really couldn't justify loading 250K javascript on every New Thread page just on the occasional off chance it might be needed...).

It wasn't a big "pressure cooker"...

phlogiston

"silence & tears"

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The Future's Here, The Future's Purple

Posted 27th December 2007 at 11:13am by phlogiston

So after surprisingly few bugs found during the launch of the AN Guide (about two dozen, more than half cosmetic) I decided it was time to break stuff properly.

My intentions had been for a piece-by-piece roll out of additional options, starting with allowing everyone else to add their own gigs, shows, events, bands, whatevers but plans & intentions have never been favourites. Instead Christmas time was spent playing with new toys.

The new toys being the next version...

phlogiston

"silence & tears"

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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...

phlogiston

"silence & tears"

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Bah Humbug

Posted 17th December 2007 at 10:26pm by Hevs

I absolutely hate Xmas!

I went back to work on the 8th December. It's not been too bad actually and I am kind of floating around on an "I love my job" cloud which will no doubt end as soon as I get my first screamer on the phone

I found some snazzy head scarves to cover my scars and they appear to be attracting minimal attention. However I did feel rather silly on meeting a bunch of guys in the pub on Saturday night, 2 of whom were dressed as pirates...

Hevs

sparkly

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It's getting there

Posted 21st November 2007 at 6:45pm by Ghostsuit

I've definitely got alot more life for this place over the last few weeks. I feel it can go some place and it's also something I'm going to be happy to show people.

Previously it looked very cluttered but I've finally got the site looking more or less the way I want it. Its now a matter of tidying up some bits and bobs and getting ready for the new gig guide.

Current Status
Working on the gallery and it's boring the hell out of me tagging pictures but once it's done...

Ghostsuit

Strong protect the weak.

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