>Damn...
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>You really live that "release early, release often", don't you?

Not meaning to sound a lot like ESR, but early/often is by far the best way to harness the power of the internet for rapid development, especially early on when the design is in flux.

With almost instantaneous feedback and scrutiny from various clever folks on this BBS, the design has gone from clumsy double-button on/off with no feedback, to fancy, extensible menus with a ton of stock features, all in a rather condensed period of time (four weeks, one week of which I was completely offline rock-climbing in J-Tree).

I'm giving a small talk on these principles, and how to get involved with OSS, at Comdex next week. If any of you are around and can make it to the session, feel free to grab me and chat Empegs (or whatever).

Cheers

Mark Lord