3 posts tagged “sixapart”
Today was a red-letter day at Six Apart, as the latest addition to the 6a product family, Vox (né Comet) announced itself to the world, in "preview" form. Not to be outdone by its brash young sibling, twelve hours later Movable Type 3.3 launched its public beta.
I'm proud to have contributed to the development of both products-first as an alpha-tester for Vox (when it was known as Comet) and then QA Engineer for Movable Type. After my years in exile, it's great to be back at a company doing big things. It was great to be in the office today feeling the tension, excitement and dare I say joy as Comet became Vox, and the blogs that had been walled off for three months burst out into the light.
Someone very wise (it might have been Roberrt Heinlein's alter ego Lazarus Long) defined happiness as working very hard at what you love. I think 6a exemplifies that attitude. Riding home on BART right now after tweleve plus hours at the office, I'm tired, but a good kind of tired-satisfied, knowing that whatever happens, at least I gave it my all, and so did everybody else on the team.
"When you do something, you should burn completely, like a good bonfire, and leave no ashes."
— Shunryu Suzuki
"When you get served, and you serve someone back, then IT'S ON" – Chef, "South Park"
Good article about the DOS attack on 6A on Tuesday . It's insane that these spammers can mount attacks like this, and basically bring a business to it needs. Another thing that Microsoft has to answer for, because it's their inability to secure their machines that leads to spammers being able to create zombie networks that mount these kinds of attacks.
Way to raise money. The article doesn't mention Comet which is either a good thing or bad thing depending on how you look at it. Good thing is that no one is leaking information. Bad thing is that no one is talking about it. But maybe at this point in the dev cycle that's okay. Don't want it to become vaporware.
It's good to see that companies are able to raise money again. Hopefully it won't get as crazy as dotcom 1.0, though. I worked for a company that raised $75mm betwee 1998 and 2000, and by early 2001 had spent it all. Totally nuts.
