More Productoin, Organization and Outsourcing

Organization is crucial in timely production when developing web apps, and just about anything else:) I been working hard getting things done, but I need to re-organize my working processes to maximize production. Hopefully outsourcing some of my workload will help.

I’ve been all over the map with the development of swamble and simulagent over the past few months. I always try to write code with specific naming conventions and reusable classes and functions. During the time I have spent on development, I’ve also worked with many different frameworks trying to speedup the development process. Looking back, this crushed production.

With every framework I tried, I ran into brick walls. Problems that were taking me too long to figure out. One problem, leading to the next. Zip files scattered all over my desktop, unzipped sources with different versions and different mods I hacked on. Basically an unhealthy mess for a developer. With all the buzzwords and hype about frameworks, both javascript and php, its been tough to stay focused on the tasks at hand. I’ve had to spend many hours over the past week or so getting my shit together. Still not completely where I want it, but getting close.

I’ve been testing out Trac lately on DevjaVu’s hosted system. Lovin it. Over the next few days I’ll be moving all my working files to Devjavu. Why now? I’m tired of being unorganized and I’m hiring some developers!

In the past, I’ve used guru.com and getafreelancer.com to hire freelance assistance with smaller projects. This time I’ll be using oDesk. I’m really looking forward to it. Development on Simulagent is about 80% complete. I’m hoping this experience is positive and we can work together to break through the walls and launch soon. I’ll keep everyone updated on how the whole experience goes. So far so good.

I’ve been finding some great tips for getting productive all over the web. Ryan Carson has been blogging lately about getting things done on his new blog Carsonified! Keep up the good work Ryan and thanks for sharing the tips! Not sure if I’m ready to switch to a mac yet, but you sure are twisting my arm. Hash, over at White African, blogged recently about Being Successful Online and makes some really great points.

I’m going to continue to learn, take risks, act on my ideas, and get more things done.

[tags]Outsoucing, Production, Organization, GTD[/tags]