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August 26, 2009

Individual First, Social Next

As I have been building abooklog I realized something, the most important need that it fulfills is for simplifying my notetaking of books. I can add all the social networking features I want and call it asocialbooklog, but I am taking a different approach. Abooklog right now fulfills the utility of an individual and has zero social features as I haven't been focusing on them as of yet.

I have been working on getting those features which make an individual's life much easier. I am thinking about how to convey information as simple as possible to the user. I am allowing the individual to set goals (especially if your a bad a reader as I am). All this in the end will I hope make interacting with abooklog quite easy to use.

There is something to be gained from this. With all the focus on social this and social that people forget that there needs to be a core idea on which to build a social network on top of. There needs to be a core idea which has to be done right and you can bolt as much social soup on top as you want.

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July 27, 2009

On Thinking About Coding

I find that it's easier to just code something up than to constantly think about coding something up. That is just get something working and interate, don't worry if the code is shit and looks ugly. Just get it working even if it does the bare minimum and add features based on that. This is especially great with tools like git which allow you to iterate rapidly, test out features in new branches and try out new things. By constantly thinking about coding you don't really accomplish much and have nothing to show for all that thinking. However, that isn't to say there isn't a place for thinking especially when dealing with hard algorithmic problems, but when I define coding here it is stuff that scratches a personal itch not something that will solve the Traveling Salesman problem or creating Hal. (Though in most cases you can get away with 2^n algorithms with those...)

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