1 2 3 testing. Sometimes you're allowed to write stuff like that when you not only write the text, but also the text that handles the text.

Another day of bug fixes. It's strange to work on braindead code that you wrote 2 years ago.

The funny thing about software is that you never ever stop finding bugs. So, to some extent, it's true that old software usually means better software. That's what Joel Spolsky meant when he wrote that throwing away its old Netscape code and starting from scratch was the biggest mistake the Mozilla project could have made. Joel's writing is required reading if you even have the slightest interest in how software and software development work.

On the other hand, Mozilla is itself coming of age, and the recent snapshots have brought huge improvements. They're now three releases away from 1.0, which should equal to roughly 3 months. I'm using the current 0.8 snapshot a lot on my Macintosh at home, and I find it very usable already, especially compared to the not so glorious other browsing options on Mac.

In other news, Robert and me today agreed to set the release date for Hop to April 1. If everything goes well we'll "officially" announce this next week.

April 1? Something we have all been waiting for over lots of months, released in the middle of Aprilscherzen? Might not have the best promotion possibilities, this day?

OK, we may still fine-tune that date ;-)
Our talk revolved more around what features are still missing (just 1 or 2), and how long we need to get documentation to a state where it's usable for newbies.

so if you waited months for this release, and you get it on first of april and it is NOT a "aprilscherz", how big might be the surprise? ;-) btw.: don't you think some "traditions" might be worth to forget?

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