It seems my body is adjusting to the 3-4 hours of sleep I am getting every night. Since we set a date for the alpha launch of FeedLounge, my days have been filled with getting the work done for my clients, and the evenings, nights, and weekends have been filled with non-stop coding, testing, bug fixing, and deployment. I even threw in my own wedding for good measure, just to see if I could keep up. Oh yeah, and let’s landscape the house and have the wedding there… You can see that my TODO list has been long for quite a while.

It seems as if my coffee maker is set up for retirement in the next few weeks, as I have been drinking 2 pots a day for the last 2 months. I may have to upgrade it to one of those fancy cup-at-a-time units. Any suggestions?

From a personal perspective, the alpha testing is going quite well. Our crack team of testers is finding the bugs, and we are trying to knock them down within 48 hours, although on occastion that has not been the case. The server seems extremely stable, and I have learned to start weening myself from my ‘command and control’ center of 6 terminal windows open to the server. I can imagine this is what it feels like when you get your first baby. You are afraid to move your eyes away for one second, lest something bad happen! Team morale is still quite high, and we are chipping away at the feature list for the beta. The outrageously overwhelming response from the community for an application like this is also pushing us just a bit more as well. For all the beta testers that signed up, hold tight, we are making progress. And to the alpha testers, thanks for keeping vigilant with the bug reports and feedback.

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