With Quiky I'm once again trapped in a feature loop. You know, you came up with something small and easy to make and during development you found many other (easy to make) features, that ultimately take much more time than the original idea combined. Or you figure out you gonna need this, and this, and that, so the original idea wasn't easy to make at all. That's what happened to me.
The PoC (Proof of Concept) was one evening stuff, but to make a product out of it it would need MUCH more grooming. Like settings form. I hate settings forms, it's always pain in the ass, because there's so much to do with uncertain result (of usage), but if you miss anything, you'll find an user, who will request that.
I had to stop coding, when I started playing with RichTextBox for WYSIWYG. I realized this is so much off the former road and that I need to go back to what's important.
Or you have a functionality on few lines of code, beautiful. But then it's time to sanitize all inputs, make some exception handling, value checking and other stuff, preventing the block of code from making unwanted stuff, suddenly you have a couple of new methods and from three lines are three screens of code.
Besides desktop app (which I can see I'll be reengineering in WPF, sooner or later) I made a nice progress with web app. Unfortunately I realized I'll have to redo the master code, because if I want the script to be cached, it can't show any content and therefore everything has to be made by XHR (AJAX). And it's harder I can't just delete the old code, because I want to preserve the original functionality for the improbable occasion some users may have JavaScript turned off. But I always took care of such events and this will be no exception.
Beacuse Quiky is getting serious, I registered a .net domain and created Facebook + Twitter pages.
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