My box at home (on which I develop Pimki) had hardware problems - conflicting onboard components that killed it when hitting save on important documents.
So I installed updates.
Which made it worse.
So I uninstalled the updates.
And it crashed during uninstall.
And it never came up.
No GUI No mouse No Commandline No Internet No Email No Air.
It just sat there, with a kinda off-whitish luminescence, the most miserable blank screen I have ever seen.
I blame:
The crappy hardware
The crappy store who sold it to me
The electrical power grid and nature for the power fluctuations
Microsoft (on general principle)
My wife blames:
Me
So we've reinstalled the OS on an older HDD (like, really
old), tried to save the previous one (unsuccessfully) and are now
backing up all the important data (did you know that enthusiastic
parents can generate upwards of 3GB of
baby photos in 4 months?). So when we've done backing up
everything (also, realllly sloooow CD burner) and reinstalling
everything from scratch, I'll be back to Pimki development (by
the end of the week, if my dear beloved wife doesn't break my
fingers).
The obvious solution (get a new one), doesn't quite get past the "is it really necessary" gate. Well, NOW
it is, but that -- as has been so eloquently pointed out to me --
is entirely my fault. With said extremely cute 4 months old baby,
and a need to move house to better accommodate said extra-cute 4
months old baby, the new nifty Mac I fancy will wait a bit longer.
As
for Pimki, I know I should "release early, release often" - but
there's some issues that prevent from usability. One of the reasons it has taken me so long, is that between the two minor versions of instiki 0.9.2 and 0.10 it has moved from Rails pre-0.5 to Rails 0.13 - for me that's the difference between a 1.x version and a 2.x one, as almost everything changed under the hood.
So the plan is
to get the import from older versions working and fix some
annoying bugs and release as alpha - hopefully within a week or
two. Then complete working on the 2.0 features. This is the list
of things that will make it for the beta phase:
Todo's will be markable (like Gmail stars)
Bliki interface will be streamlined and entries will be integrated with the global categories/tags
Per-page Hyperbolic Mind-Maps
Glossary items are tool-tipped on every page
Change the in-page categories to a separate tags line
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