Cockatil Napkin to Startup (DIY Part Nine)
June 30, 2006
This is part nine of a series of posts describing how we are taking an idea from a cocktail napkin and putting into the real world. Start now, or read along from the start with: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six, part seven and part eight.
Tantek had referred me to Andy Clarke (superstar designer from the UK and Microformats expert) to review our hResume markup. I added Andy to the Basecamp site for hReview and indicated that each coder should show him their markup once it was completed for comment and correction. I was paying Andy for two hours of work (via Amazon gift card - note to self I need to actually send it) and I made this clear to each coder. Evidently one of the coders was excited to work with Andy and starting asking him about all of his code and his markup. Andy, being a nice guy, just went forward and worked with him 1, 2, 3 and then 4 hours later Andy mentioned on the Basecamp site that we were really racking up the hours and fees! Ouch! He had not even looked at anyone’s hResume markup and we had blown our budget (Andy is not cheap).
Fortunately, Ryan King agreed to take a look at the markup and made a few suggestions. We are down to one coder now. One of the coders, the one who could not get the plugin to create a new page, decided he had worked long enough and felt we were still obligated to pay for the plugin regardless of whether or not it worked. The good news is that one of the coders got the plugin done, exactly like my wireframe, and we are currently waiting on Ryan to review the markup to release it.
We started the coders on May 17th and were told that it would take no more than a week, but finally on June 29th we have a plugin that works! Now we just need to get similar plugins developed for MT and SquareSpace, launch the ping server and start/finish the resume site. Wonder when we will get done?
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