The Dead Texan
Posted by Joel Fri, 21 Jul 2006 04:44:00 GMT
Thanks to my iPod I've been listening to lots of the music I have that I've never really heard. I've also still listened to NPR a bit. It's pretty easy to switch over to the radio at 9 am to catch the Writer's Almanac, and if the Fresh Air interview is no good, go back to the iPod.
I am pretty happy with my productivity at work and I feel like I am really turning this site around. I feel like it's going to be successful and I'm going to keep trying hard. We are still fixing it up and adding some more crucial basic features before we start marketing to the customers and generating revenue. However, we have just been immensely popular amongst photographers, with loads and loads of photos coming in at a very fast pace.
Today Eric and I went to House of Nanking which was fun. He invited me to a party in Soma but I'm pretty tired. I still haven't started working out (although I've signed up and bought some clothes) and I want to get some sleep so I can actually start tomorrow morning. We'll see if that happens.
Yesterday I worked for about 11 hours and then came home and worked for another two hours. Today I worked a more normal schedule (maybe 8.5 hours). I keep learning so much more about scaling sites, and I've now learned how amazingly significantly speed can improve by indexing the right table columns (and how it can really slow things down if you index the wrong ones!)
Also, I'm starting to realize my current/stable branching setup is just insufficient for the real world, for a couple reasons. While I like decentralized version control, my coworkers don't use it. And second of all, sometimes you want to commit things in a way that everyone can use them, but they are more long term projects, or need to wait, so can't go live with the next release. In short, I'm going to set up some branches based on certain projects, and might return to using the "trunk" terminology, something like trunk/branches/live. Still no release numbers, though ;)
