It’s been a productive couple of weeks here at Serendeputy world headquarters. I have been heads-down trying to build the private alpha version of the site — i.e., get it running end to end on my own machine.

I hope to be able to have the private alpha done by the end of September, with an incredibly limited wider alpha by October 15th or so. I hope that it doesn’t take me two weeks to get the deployment and hosting issues squared away, but this is the weakest part of my game, so I’m trying to give myself plenty of time to get that part right.

The rails application is largely built, and the catalog application is coming along quickly. The hard part is maintaining the discipline to keep writing the tests and automating the admin pieces of the application. I keep wanting to jump ahead and build out some of the sexier features. It’s sometimes not a lot of fun being a grown up.

If you’re interested in taking an early look at the application, drop me a line, and I’ll make sure I send you the information when it’s somewhere publicly accessible.

The blog will probably be dark for a couple more weeks as I finish this sprint. The world grieves.

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