Status? What’s that? Panic? 🙂 THE TOUGH A) I’m behind on getting the Propertari

Status? What’s that? Panic? 🙂

THE TOUGH

A) I’m behind on getting the Propertarian Institute off the ground. I wanted to do it in January, but it’s the end of february already. (Apologies to my friends that this is affecting.)

B) We are refactoring Oversing’s code to reflect the UI model we’ve adopted. And the development team has caught up to me again, meaning that I”m behind designing the UI again. Sigh. The problem is that the part I’m designing is one of the hardest feature sets in the product.

C) We’re having a conflict with our vendor here in Kiev because of space and network quality. We’ve taken our own office. (Which is walking distance from all sorts of good things.) And so I have to get an office together on short notice.

D) I am trying to put two web sites together for two companies (which is fun really – I love positioning and marketing.)

E) I am burning more money per month than I wanted to. And being the cheap b_____ that I am, it really bothers me. 🙂

F) The guys developed a xlat (multi-language) function set and it’s all implemented. But I found a commercial bit of code that does the job perfectly with fewer requests and less labor and it’s just got to be put in, and the other code pulled. This will get us every language we could possibly want. Saving us months of time, and lots of money.

G) There is a Libertarian ‘conference’ next month. Ukraine doesn’t want me going in and out of the country without my residency permit. So my lawyer is sprinting to get it done.

H) The post-soviet government stuff here is simply impossible. It doesn’t matter that the politicians are corrupt – they actually pass good laws. The problem is that the bureaucracy self-perpetuates silly soviet process orientation (blame avoidance really) and the judges don’t enforce the rule of law. So literally, the bureaucracy and the judiciary has to literally die off before these people can get out of the hole. And that means that I have to be in this hole with them.

GOOD STUFF

A) Steven is designing the system reports and they are amazing. Seriously. I was blown away this morning when I read his spec. No one in the world has this kind of business intelligence combined with this kind of ‘social engineering of the organization’. No one. It’s … amazing.

B) Integrating with accounting systems is easier than we thought.

C) Max and I had a brilliant conversation about document stores. I am adamant that I want all docs to be stored by mail, so that anything can be cc’d to an account or project and no other steps are necessary. It should just be a simple inbox list. That’s it. Max fought with me and got me to see how we could use existing stores. He was right.

D) The software looks awesome. 🙂 And the code is both fast and elegant. Really. Every other product will look two or three generations behind. We’re right in-trend.

E) The weather is changing – it’s becoming spring. 🙂