http://www.acropoliswms.com The creation of a new shopping cart software; Or, the woes of web development... Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:22:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I read an interesting post yesterday on ReadWriteWeb which discusses a report compiled by Dan Zarrella on "Link Attraction Factors: Getting Dugg and Going Viral." As we are working on our own viral campaign for Strollers Direct, and plan to work on making it to the first page of ... http://www.acropoliswms.com/?p=15 Travis and I worked until about 10pm last night completing our goals for AqueduX.  That was the end of an approximately 14 hour day for each of us.  This morning I woke up at 5:00am to put some finishing touches on our demo, only to find several bugs that had ... http://www.acropoliswms.com/?p=14 This is just a quick update to let everyone know that you can now follow this blog, and our progress on Acropolis on Twitter.  Our Twitter user name is acropoliswms, so if your a Twitter bug, head on over to the site, and begin following us. http://www.acropoliswms.com/?p=13 Last week's breakthrough has quickly escalated, in our minds if not yet in reality, to a open-source project that may very well contribute to closing the gap between desktop and Web-based applications.  Drawing upon our love of historical allusion, we are naming the project Aquedux, which tentatively stands for Automagic ... http://www.acropoliswms.com/?p=12 The Roman Aqueducts were the arteries of the empire. The legions may have defended, conquered, and expanded, but any history buff will tell you that the aqueducts were the arteries of the empire that nourished and sustained its life. The architecture of the aqueducts was simple, beautiful and powerful. ... http://www.acropoliswms.com/?p=10 David Hofstadter's law of programming: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law. This was in one of the closing chapters of Dreaming in Code, which I just finished last night.  I read the quote over and over again, and just thought it was wonderful, ... http://www.acropoliswms.com/?p=9 I mentioned in a previous post that I have been reading a book called Dreaming in Code, which chronicles the attempt by a team of programmers and designers to hammer out a Personal Information Management software (PIM) that will compete with the big boys - namely Outlook/Exchange.  I am about ... http://www.acropoliswms.com/?p=8 Not much has been done on Acropolis the past couple of days and I am not sure much more will be done in the next few.  Clients have been eating up my time lately with one-page checkouts, image galleries, site transfers, proposals, and God-knows what else.  I began last week ... http://www.acropoliswms.com/?p=7 Yesterday, in extreme programming style, Travis and I worked as a team to lay out a lot of the structural framework of Acropolis. If the marriage of JQuery and CakePHP is our goal, we may not be at an official engagement yet, but the courtship has currently begun. ... http://www.acropoliswms.com/?p=6 I just have to keep telling myself that. Programming, as life, has its ups and downs.  Today was most certainly filled with more downs than ups.  I am used to programs I write breaking for no reason, even though they were working fine yesterday.  I am used to neverending swarms of ... http://www.acropoliswms.com/?p=5