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Obsession

Posted August 11th, 2007 | View Comments

I should probably ask Purva Brown to come over and join me here at the Sacramento Real Estate Blog. 

I need air support.  I am pinned down by enemy entropy.

(You can see:  I’ve been watching too much of the Military Channel, and taking my daughter out to see Transformers last night didn’t help at all).

The thing that has me pinned down and semi-literate is the new real estate listings site.  The reason it has rendered me semi-literate is that there’s a large body of work in front of me, and even though an intrepid early adopter (can I get an intrepid early adopter?) could start blogging right now, I’m trying to get the site to the point where I’m not embarrassed to even be calling for intrepid early adopters.

The usual dynamic on software projects goes something like this:

CEO:  “Ship it.”

Programmer: “It’s not ready.”

CEO:  “I need something to show people.”

Programmer: “It’s not ready to show anyone.  If I get a demo ready the whole project will take longer.”

CEO:  “Ship it.”

Programmer: “It’s not ready.”

The problem with a one man software project is that I’m both sides of that argument. 

I wonder which one of me will win?

Meantime, in order to get the work done at all, the programmer needs to be sitting at the keyboard thinking about nothing else but the project, period, and every twenty minutes the CEO comes along and says:  “Did you blog something today?  You know we need to keep up on our existing stuff while we’re doing new development, right?”

I really hate that guy.

  • http://www.reagentinct.com Sock Puppet

    I know the feeling John. 50% or even 90% “done” amounts to not much different than “not even started” when it comes to coding and websites for the end user. Keep it up though, everything you do ends up looking pretty damn good.

    -Athol

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  • http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-agents/ John Lockwood

    Well, thanks again for the kind words and the link. I may throw in the towel if WordPress MU doesn’t start behaving. Or at least go back to what the site is supposed to be, which is a listing site, as opposed to some multi-user blog thingie.

  • http://www.tucsonazrealestateblog.com Dave Smith

    John,

    I just signed up for an account on the miltiuser blog thingie. I didn’t set up a blog because I don’t have a clue what to call it. or what to write about. But I think this is a good thing and a worthy project.

    I’m not into active rain, just never sounded interesting to me even though I was there from almost the beginning. I set up an account for my wife, but the whole point system thing was a big turn off for me and then Jay Thompson came along and blew everyone else in AZ out of the water.

    I’ve always wanted to ride a particle wave and this sounds like an opportunity.

    You might be Gollum, but you don’t come across as a towel thrower. : )

  • http://www.tucsonazrealestateblog.com Dave Smith

    John,

    Do Particle waves turn men into obsessive dual personality bloggers ?

  • http://www.sacramento-home.com/real-estate-events John Lockwood

    Hi Dave,

    Yes, it’s the particle waves that do it. They’re quite radioactive.

    Thanks for signing up for this great adventure. Oh dang, now I have to not throw in the towel? To be honest I’m very disappointed in WordPress multi-user ever since finding out that it doesn’t support my pet feature of pasting in a vFlyer listing — I love those things.

    I was hoping to get listings displayed on the front page as early as today. And I still could, but now the links to them would link to something cheesy.

    Oh well, onward and upward. Thanks for signing up.

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