Banana Cake v0.011111 alpha beta gama delta something or other LIVE!

Today I put the first version of Banana Cake live on an internal web server and invited my co-developers here at twentysix leeds to become my testers.

We've got a couple of current projects set up on there and I hope the guys will use it to track what they are doing and hopefully provide me with some excellent and useful feedback over the next few weeks.

If they do and and they find it useful day to day then my plan is to roll it out to the entire office ( a whole 25 users !) . With a bit of luck I'll have come up with a real name for it by then and sorted out the dicey interface although gay Dave says he likes the way it looks as it is...

I'm off to look at the bugs list for Banana Cake and get some issues sorted.

Still no internet

The internet at work is still Jaffed so for the last two days I've been using my K800i as a modem via the wonderful T-Mobile Web 'n' Walk plus which connects at a staggering 115Kbps (about 40KB/s download if i'm lucky) which beats the pants off our poxy broadband here at work(connects at 8Mbps and downloads at about 2KB/s. But hopefully that should all be changing next week when we get a second line installed.

So for now, I'm not doing much online (this blog is turning into a blog about not being able to style up this blog!) but I have got a couple of other things on the go.

inyerface theatre company
This website is a favour for some friends and I'm going to meet them soon to get phase 1 (news and performances sections) live while I work on phase 2 which will bring images to the site in the form of photo galleries.

Banana Cake...
... is the working name for a simple bug tracking app that I'm in the process of building.
This came about after my moan the other day that I was bored with work/the internet and so I decided to get off my arse and do something about it.

Banana Cake is about 15% done (in about 4hrs spread over 2 and a half evenings) so I'm hopeful I'll actually produce something before I lose steam (like I usually do). Once I've got it to a reasonable state I'm going to unleash it on my work colleagues where it will hopefully fill a gap in our infrastructure (have you ever tried setting up bugzilla, nightmare) and get some useful feedback for it.

I might even buy a domain for it and try and make something of it! But before any of that happens I've got my tax return to do before the end of the month... bloody inland revenue!