I don't know about you people out there, but we ordered our landlord already to ignite the central heating system as the days are getting chillier and chillier. Summer time has gone by again, and it's about time to put up a summer redux on our starving company blog. The usual excuse: we have been busy, and we prefer to focus on customers and projects.
I'm not sure if we're allowed to say so already, but we successfully delivered a first large Kauri-based project a couple of weeks ago. It's a ReST service layer for user-generated content, i.e. tags, annotations, polls, comments and such, and it's been designed for one of the world's largest media organizations. Let's say we learned a lot about scaling, partitioning, mysqlproxy and various other exotic (for us) technologies and concepts, and that we were happy to at least not have to worry about the Java-side of things, as that part of the application fitted extremely well with Kauri.
That, and one of our Outerthinkers becoming a proud twin-father (congrats, Karel!), another one getting married (congrats, Paul!), Freya who switched from a part-time to a full-time scheme, combined with a healthy dose of holiday leaves and such: yessir, it was summer chaos season again.
The next few weeks will be quite remarkable as well: it's been a serious while since we had a full house working on a single project. Our first big Kauri user is eagerly awaiting for his development team to hit the road with a first serious release, which means Kauri is getting our undivided attention these days.
And after that? Well, there's still and always Daisy 3.0 looming a bit further around the corner, but first we have to ship this Kauri baby. So if you excuse us for now, and join us in welcoming some more silence: we will be back!