It seems like every blogger goes through a phase where their posts slow down...then...unexplainedly........stop. Then about 2 months later. the "mea culpa" post - "been busy" "had a kid" "major project" "releasing soon" "index finger removed by rabid aardvark" - then everything gets back to normal.

Here's mine.

December 2005:

We're working towards releasing our second major Ajax-enabled application. The due date (immovable!) is December 13. Matt is working his tail off on this and in the process has become quite the god of DOM manipulation and character encoding. Eeks...never really meant for it to get that bad. but i'll make it up to him once the "open" season was over.

I'm working on a mass email application. Dime a dozen functionality. but additional features that are client-specific. Since we're trying to deploy to a fully Mach-ii powered intranet. I decide that we should roll our own. Coding goes well for the most part; not everything is done (and i'm still picking at it as of this post) but i'm nice and busy.

December 13 comes and things are cool for a few days. but then we start hearing from the end users that there are things they don't understand and a few minor bugs that needed to be killed off. Also. the reporting engine needs some attention - CFDOCUMENT is devouring parts of the PDF. We fix the minor stuff quickly. sometimes within a half hour. and figure things should calm down considerably before we hit our self-prescribed "R&D period".

Yep. we were supposed to not be doing any deployments or actual client work for the last 2 weeks of the year. Ha! I'll know better in 2006 to not even attempt this one unless we deploy at Thanksgiving so the hubbub dies down sooner.

Due to certain users who shall remain nameless (though they all have nicknames now) not reading the very nicely illustrated and critically acclaimed user guide. we find ourselves answering the same email over and over again.

Christmas week comes. No meetings (horray!). Productivity on the other app skyrockets. Matt gets a little bit of time to start messing with Flex 2. as we have plans to start developing some stuff in the 2nd quarter of 2006. But not the full 2 weeks. and hardly without interruption.

I'm more than a little upset that my planning didn't allow for us to really dig in to Flex more. But we've got a lot of stuff on our plates right now. Blogging is important. so i'll be working towards getting back to my "every other day" pace starting now.

So i'm back. just like Jack Bauer. Enjoy!