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Weekly Update: 2nd week of April

by Peldi Guilizzoni. April 12th, 2008 under Company / Business, Development / TechnicalNo Comment

Hi there, quick update. This past week:

  • I fixed the remaining bugs in Mockups For Confluence. I spent 2 hours at Atlassian chasing down my last big bug only to find out that it was a Confluence bug, which they’ll fix. Yay! Once again I am impressed with the folks at Atlassian: friendly, knowledgeable, enthusiastic. It’s always a pleasure to spend some time at their office here in SF.
  • I got the EULA finalized with my lawyer
  • I started building a “social online persona” for Balsamiq: now you can “friend balsamiq” on Facebook or send Twitters to “balsamiq” if you have questions, or you can follow my twitters if you really care. :) This is part of my continued effort to be as accessible as possible to my customers.
  • I started working on the JIRA plugin: so much fun! I really enjoy adding my plugins to other products, it gives me a good feeling to see great products made even better by the feature(s) my plugin adds. I have a lot more work to do here but none of it seems too scary.
  • Through a miracolous chance encounter at my coffee shop, I have lined up an interview with a hugely popular tech blog. I am calling the editor on 4/22, stay tuned. I am so excited about this I can hardly type about it. :)
  • I have put the FlatWorld demo back on the site.

Other than that, I have been spending more and more time on “the big move”.

I have noticed a slowdown in the amount of feedback I receive from you guys, should I worry about it? Are any of you actively using Mockups to help with your work?

Until next week, Peldi

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Hi this is Peldi from Balsamiq. This blog is a mixture of product updates, company updates and posts about my experiences as a programmer-turned-entrepreneur. If you're into 37Signals and A Smart Bear, this blog is for you.