All Out Software is my passion.  Sadly, it does not pay the bills yet.  So when my contract ran out unexpectedly in August, I had to find a new one.  That search ended Monday and I start working at one of the premier private universities in the US on Wednesday in IT.

My boss, it turns out, used to be the boss of another Mac indie developer from St. Louis.  He was a little leery about hiring another potential short timer.  He thinks he will be able to keep me engaged in making the computing environment at Washington University in St. Louis a better place than it has been and is with regard to user experience.  I am hoping he is right.

What does this mean for AOS?  Well, I am hoping not a lot.  I have not been terribly focused over the last couple of months due to having to conduct the job search.  Maybe things will speed up?  I am not sure.  I do know that I will be working my butt off on Friday to make sure that I have a Leopard version of Hana available for download.  Look for it late on Friday or early Saturday.

Work on 1.1 is coming along.  I would say we are at about 50% complete.  By the end of this week I am hoping to have one feature to go.  The one which will make Hana even more unique when compared to all other browsers.  We call this feature: C----- J---.  I am not going to tell you about it until I see it work though.  Our research shows it to be doable. But until I have actually implemented it, though, no telling!

CJ will get people talking about Hana.  Maybe even spur other browser developers to re-examine some notions about how some things are done.