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tim@dressfortheweather.com (Tim Jones) — Tue, 09 May 2006 13:23:00 -0500

Writing now from the secret underground lair in Lake George, NY, where Rich and I have gone into hiding for the week write v1.0 (or maybe v0.1) of OpenBoxOffice, codename OBOe.

Major decisions so far:

1. We’re going to use Ruby On Rails. So far, despite the “YOU WILL DEVELOP TEN TIMES FASTER” claims, this has mainly involved 12 frustrating hours of installing, reinstalling, compiling, cursing and recompiling poorly-documented code libraries.

This is only made more frustrating by the breathless and semicondescending tone of the tutorials. Actual quote: “Now, that is way beyond cool—it’s awesome! OK, calm down and enter a test record.” Thank you, Tutorial, for reminding me to calm down, lest the eldrich beyond-awesome power of your code seer my soul.

Anyway, I’ll let you know when we get agile.

2. Theme song for the day: Jan Hammer Group’s Evolove. (Picture it as the 70s movie “getting stuff done” montage theme.)

(crossposted from Toneland)

And so it begins.

rich@dressfortheweather.com (Richard Orris) — Mon, 08 May 2006 15:43:00 -0500

That’s right, it’s the beginning of our OpenBoxOffice retreat. After picking Tim Jones at the Albany Airport this morning, we meandered up 87 stopping for a beer and business planning in Saratoga. We’ve finally made it to sunny Lake George and it’s time to get to work…

Agenda Item #1: Language

PHP vs. Ruby vs. Python? Rails vs. Django? I think our mind is already made up, but we’ll keep you in suspense for a little while.

Oboe a-go-go!

rich@dressfortheweather.com (Richard Orris) — Mon, 01 May 2006 00:44:00 -0500

Welcome to the brand spanking new OpenBoxOffice blog! Feed us so you can keep tabs on development and other exciting news from the Oboe Labs.

We’ll be hosting our first code sprint May 8 – 12 in Lake George, NY. That’s all we can tell you right now…