Day job is in that wonderfully secure position where you desperately throw stuff at the wall to see if it sticks. It’s really tearing my attention apart, because the project needs, on the one hand, to get application-sharing performance nailed down in the current pathological cases and to make a protocol change in order to reliably get in those pesky firewalled users and evade the outrageous misfortunes created by Joe Users who can’t click a signed applet accept button in 30 seconds or less (while the JRE races ahead of them), and on the other hand, to deploy entirely new services that can either make the user-base invest their data in our system, or create new revenue centers.

Anyhow, I put up SugarCRM, Wordpress, and Mambo CMS. We’ll see what K thinks.

Junior is doing really well. He did a first-pass refactor on the appshare dll, various PHP tweaks, and now has deployed a customized jabber webstart client and a server with aol/msn plugins. Unfortunately, I don’t think he’s interested in taking over my job, so his presence still doesn’t free me of responsibility for the technical end of the business. I might still split if I get a good offer, though. It’s not like my salary can’t buy some pretty good talent — If K can find it.