May 11 2008

How late I am…

How late I am…

This just demonstrates how much your planning ends up meaning when you have a full-​time job in addition to developing an application. I started earnestly developing Hyperspaces just under 6 months ago now (17th December, 2007 is the date of the first subversion commit). I’d been toying with the idea of a version of VirtueDesktops that wasn’t an insane hack, but instead worked with Apple’s implementation of virtual desktops for a few months prior. Until that week, I wasn’t sure it would be possible to gather enough information or interact with Spaces in a way that would even let me achieve what I wanted to.

Is the development vs. full-​time job dilemma common among other small developers? Long term, I’d love to be able to develop great mac applications full-​time, but it seems to be a catch-​22 situation.

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Did you watch the Evening At Adler indie-​gathering that was in Chicago a few years ago? That was dis­cussed to a fair extent. The gen­eral gist was that yeah, its a prob­lem for every­body, but the big­ger prob­lem wasn’t writ­ing the soft­ware while work­ing full time it was writ­ing some­thing, sup­port­ing it, AND find­ing time to add fea­tures and work on newer ver­sions all while work­ing full time that was the biggest dilemma. Sev­eral of the guys there said the drive even­tu­ally caused them to quit their full time job and start­ing mak­ing a liv­ing off of their prod­ucts (which was a huge risk, kudos to those who sur­vived it!) I put a link to the down­load below, i’m not sure if its even still up. if its not i have a local copy around here some where, i’m sure we can arrange a transfer :)

http://​drunk​en​bat​man​.com/​e​v​e​n​i​n​g​_​a​t​_​a​d​l​e​r​/​d​o​w​n​l​o​a​d​.html

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