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Rui Carmo posted a small bit about Chandler:

I used to think this would be able to stand up to the Outlook hegemony, but I find the current GUI hopelessly confusing. And what’s with the need for a separate Intel package?

While I can’t answer about the GUI thought I can about why we publish a separate package for Intel-based OS X Macs.

Basically the decision was made back when our choices when Panther and Tiger were both PPC and Intel was *very* new, was to go with two package that were smaller in size. Another concern was that the techniques for creating a universal binary was still new and un-proven in the Python and wxPython realm.

Thankfully that is not an issue now and one of the things I’m working on is a change to do exactly that. I still feel that we will probably have a huge download size but I guess we will find out.

update: of course after hitting send I realized I can speak also about the GUI issue: The Chandler GUI reflects/exposes a very powerful set of tools to help manage and deal with incoming items (mail, tasks, etc) and also the daily routine of deciding just what needs to be done when and how. So it *is* very busy and that can, I think, come off as confusing. What’s missing in our Preview is a road-map for completely new users.

I’ve been monitoring the TechCrunch 40 back-channel irc discussion and it’s like I wandered into a geek frat party where everyone knows each other and have already started drinking.

Insults, jabs, taunts, locker-room humour all over the place – and that’s for the people they seem to like. For the others it is downright harsh and ignorant.

The defense seems to be that this is how they would talk in person and that people just don’t appreciate subtle humour.

Wow, I would just hate to see how they behave if they felt really comfortable and safe.

Actually, I think I’ll just add some more names to my internal spam filter and hope that Tantek continues with his great live coverage in spite of them.

p.s. I’ve already been over this a couple times to tone it down and to remove a couple names – never push send on anything written in frustration or anger :)

Monday I generated the build for Chandler Preview (ver 0.7.0.1) and the QA team has signed off on it and it’s officially released.

I feel so happy to have helped with the Preview release and proud that the team has done such a great job to wrangle all of the various distractions, features and issues into meeting this major Milestone.

And all in a completely open manner – trust me, you can track each painful slip and mis-step we made if you wanted to :)

For me this totally validates the vision that Mitch and the management team set out for us from the start: integrate Design and Development into an open process but yet still deliver quality work.

Now it’s up to the people who will use Chandler in their real lives to give us feedback as to how well we did to hit that target.

I was scanning my feed backlog this morning (isn’t it always a backlog now-a-days :) and saw that Ted had posted an entry in his blog about the recent Sealtle Flickr meetup he attended.

Earlier he had sent to me via IM that he was posting some early looks into the photos he had taken and even with them being raw photos with no tweaking I could tell that he a) had a great time and b) had shot some amazing photos!

In his post today I think he was reading my mind because he picked two of the photos that just knocked my socks off!

The first photo I just love for it’s composition and how he managed to get such colour depth while still not completely washing out the skin tones. The blue in her dress just positivly *snaps*.

The second photo just makes me drool to be honest. The framing and colour warmth are excellent. Her body position, eye focus, mouth style all just reach and slap me around in a good way :)

I think he was telling me she’s not a model and was constantly telling him that she needed all kinds of direction – could have fooled me!

Like I commented in his blog, the second photo is one I would love to have printed and framed. So much so I just have to embed it here: