What’s Been Happening

The pcfworks.com blog page is alive again. I have to admit that I sort of let go of my product VeriTime and the pcfworks.com website for a while (more like two years!). Things started slowing down after the 30-day challenge (the object was to come up with a prototype after 30 days) that I participated in sometime June or July 2008. After the 30 days of intense software development (programming, debugging, testing)  I had a ‘burn out’. It was so bad that I did not do any software development for about six (6) months after that. I did try to do something after a couple of months but I was not just motivated.

A lot of things have happened in this last two years and I have quite a lot of catching up to do. Not only in updating VeriTime but also getting into mobile application development (iPhone/Android) and web appls. So many things to learn but so little time (nope, I am not using it as an excuse). As they say “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!”.

I have read somewhere that one way of motivating oneself is to communicate to the world (i.e. via a blog or some other medium) what one intends to do, some sort of a public journal/diary. Initially, I resisted this idea because I thought that it was useless. Who in their right mind would be interested enough read what I have done, currently doing, or will do in the future? None? One? Two? I do not know. In the end, I decided to go for it as a form of an experiment. I have read (actually following) someone who has chronicled most of the things that he has been doing with his product and it seems to work (not that it will work for me but no harm in trying).

Also, I spend quite a lot of time reading other people’s blogs and sometimes I come across a handy tip which I want to share with you here in this blog. So if you are still with me then I welcome you to accompany me in my journey (right now I do not know where it will lead but hopefully to somewhere beautiful).

In my next post I shall put down in writing some of the avenues I am exploring for VeriTime in particular and other general ideas. Hopefully, you will give me some feedback. Till next time.