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October 23, 2005
Is this thing on?
So, what's new? I haven't posted in forever and a few months, so this one will be sort along, as always.
Coal is dead. Basically, the idea was good but there just wasn't enough time. Oh well, spotlight's interface still sucks, I still use quicksilver, so does Jerome.
Chatkit, on the other hand, is not. Ofri got some code in today (or was it yesterday?). It's not really tested, but it is a start. It's for rendezvous/bonjour, and gives us something to start on.
I've been move up to being called the Project Manager for Adium, officially. This doesn't change much, as I've been operating the same way for the last two years with Adium, this just makes it official. It's kinda neat, I manage two projects now, both with two different styles of management, and both with their own sets of problems. The good part here is that Adium depends on Growl, and as Project Lead on Growl, that helps Adium out quite a bit.
I was offered a position with DefaultMind, the owners of Proteus. The position was for two unrelated software titles. I eventually turned this down. Apparently some people got word of this before they were supposed to know, albeit I do not really know how. One person thought it was a huge deal and wanted to post about it, I said no, and now he's angry at me. Guess it turns out good for him.
Growl itself is in the middle of a large codebase refactorization (is that a word?). I say middle, because half of the related tickets are closed. We've gained two people who can help with this, so the process should speed up some. Growl .8 will have positioning, and hopefully close widgets for notifications, meaning that managing the notifications will be easier.