It was a movie featuring Ray Milland, if I remember correctly. The Lost Weekend, I mean. He had what is euphemistically known these days as a ‘bit of a drink problem’. One moment, there he was, merrily tootling along without a care in the world; the next moment, everything changed and his life descended into a grainy black-and-white blur. Time passed, and he couldn’t remember a thing…
It’s been a bit like that for me. Except, it wasn’t a weekend, it was a year; and it wasn’t the booze that was to blame, it was a little programming project that grew to Gargantuan proportions. At any rate, I won’t bother you with the details. I’ve related the salient facts more than once in previous blog entries. Suffice to say, this past year has gone by in a blur. We’ve been working an average of 12 to 14 hours a day, 7 days a week – and, for the life of me, I can’t remember what on earth we were doing…
Well, we reached a pretty important point today. We finally released the first commercial version of the software. It’s called Ruby In Steel and it’s a Ruby and Rails IDE for Visual Studio 2005. It was developed by the same people behind Bitwise and you can get a 30-Day Trial, a free ‘Personal Edition’ or – if you really want to bring a smile to the dog’s face (she has high expectations of Bonios beyond her wildest dreams if this turns out to be a success), you could always buy a copy.
As for me, you’ll have to excuse me, but I’m taking the day off. Well, it will be the first time for a year…
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