The obligatory "what I'm up to, in case you're wondering" update
I'm making a little progress on my ad serving software. As I mentioned at some point previously, it works fabulously well on the serving side, it just had no admin UI. I need to figure out a way to really test the crap out of it. I probably will sell it, so to do so I need to make some statement about its scalability. I'm not going to pretend it's Doubleclick DART for your own use, but to date it has had no problem serving millions of impressions per month without breaking a sweat. I have to decide when it starts to sweat.
I'm reviewing the PDF's of my book. It's seriously weird. It's finally starting to feel real. Bummer that it won't feel like I really get paid until later this year! Publishing is a very weird business in terms of schedules. The good news is that it appears it will be more pages than I expected. Not that size matters, or something.
Self-employment taxes suck. I think I'm going to need to sell a few of my FUN units to pay taxes. Seriously, the only thing that keeps me from feeling really comfortable in working for myself is that damn check I have to write once a quarter.
I need to write an app to do event registration for CoasterBuzz Club. To date I've posted PDF forms and had attendees send them in with checks or credit card info, and that's a bit labor intensive. It should be easy enough, but the biggest issue is that events essentially have four prices depending on whether or not the attendee is a club member and whether or not they have a season pass to the park where we're having the event.
I hoped to be really pressing forward on POP Forums right now, but that's not moving along as fast as I hoped. I haven't fully documented the requirements, so I haven't done much else. One of my more experienced coding friends said I should take comfort in knowing that the fact that I'm endeavoring in requirements at all shows I'm a "grown up" developer. I think that's good, right?