Advertising my work

Posted by Shaun on August 26th, 2006 filed in Junk drawer

Last night I started to advertise my hard work on Suafe. I’ve been putting it off since the application wasn’t ready for any real testing. I would be embarrassed to tell people to use an application I wrote, but didn’t finish. I’d lose face.

Yesterday, I found some time to finish up a few details and fix a few bugs, and posted Release 2.0. Then to advertise it’s existence I put out a message on the Subversion users mailing list letting people know about it. I didn’t get any resounding responses, but at least one person downloaded and tried it. Guess what? It didn’t work. I guess I have more work to do.

In my defense the error he received was due to a missing German translation of the resource file. He was running Suafe on a German machine. The application should have fell back to using English since there was no German resource file, but it does show that I’m doing the write thing in making the application localizable. He even offered to translate the resource file for me. I’ll probably take him up on his offer.

BTW this is my first open source project. So far so good. I’m happy to write an application to help others, especially seeing as this is the first of its kind. At least as far as I know.