New IWC issue

[Jim_Brennan]

@Eric LeVine

Steve, not a good plan. I do still hold out hope that I might collaborate with these people someday, since a lot of mutual customers want us to do that.

Poll for Eric:
Do you think Parker will collaborate with you?

1. Yes, I have full faith that he will finally see the light after all these years.
2. Nope, I am just stringing myself along.

[Eric_LeVine]

Jim, to their credit, they are not stringing me along…

IOW, you need a third option: when hell freezes over and over their dead bodies.

[Jim_Brennan]

Fixed.

More seriously, I get it… keeping options open is the right biz decision, but the subject is ripe for plenty of levity.

[Eric_LeVine]

They couldn’t take the heat … err, the feedback from their own customers on their product that is 3 years late. So the thread gets shuffled off to the Subscriber’s Corner to die a quiet death. Pretty weak.

[Rick_Gregory]

I’m shocked. Shocked.

[Eric_LeVine]

Serge, you are spending a lot of time trying to determine the size of my business. You are overestimating it a bit, but you are in the ballpark. (There are some articles out there where I have been quoted on estimates on this, although I generally try not to talk about it much.)

[Eric_LeVine]

Your only incorrect assumption is around the exact amount to associate with the $, $$, $$$, and $$$$ in the reports… Those are threshold based and not exact amounts, but as I said you are in the ballpark. This year most of the profit was reinvested in a new server farm (high availability, enterprise grade storage) and the redesign (those designers are not cheap), but CT is a healthy, small business.

[ToddFrench]

@Eric LeVine

Your only incorrect assumption is around the exact amount to associate with the $, $$, $$$, and $$$$ in the reports… Those are threshold based and not exact amounts, but as I said you are in the ballpark. This year most of the profit was reinvested in a new server farm (high availability, enterprise grade storage) and the redesign (those designers are not cheap), but CT is a healthy, small business.

I’m awaiting a check from wine-searcher in the grand amount of $19.86, so I know what it’s like to rake it in as you do.

[Eric_LeVine]

@Serge Birbrair

Eric is one man show and still manages to do things on time on the budget 1/10th of Parker.

To be totally fair about one thing, my redesign has taken longer than I wanted. Unlike Parker, I am doing my redesign while I have a growing, functioning site already deployed for the past 5.5 years.

My original goal (not announced) was to have it done in July. The Vinfolio Marketplace integration ended up landing at the same time and took me a lot longer than I expected–some of my first cross-site, API-based development work, and it was just much trickier than I expected. Then I also reached the conclusion to do a parallel deployment of the new site so that people can evaluate and transition at their leisure. I want to make sure to take feedback and not force people over. That necessitated about 6 weeks of extra work (all done) to the current architecture and site. Plus Dad passing in August took about 2 weeks that I did not schedule for. My stretch goal then was Thanksgiving with mid to late December as the more likely. The Burghound deal came along int he middle and then one more tha tyou will hear about next week, and those take some time to code too. I am not 100% sure I will hit my end of year goal, but I just don’t see the project stretching past January. My list of to-do’s is shrinking rapidly, and I am almost done with the worst of the really thorny engineering problems, heading to the homestretch of mostly rote cleanup. I am just taking it one day and one task at a time right now. If nothing else I will unleash a wave of screenshots before the end of the year based on REAL code so people can see what is coming around the corner.

[ToddFrench]

@P. Robert

@Todd F r e n c h

I’m awaiting a check from wine-searcher in the grand amount of $19.86, so I know what it’s like to rake it in as you do.

baller

I plan to pay down my mortgage and buy a few cases of ‘05 Burgundy after I pay for the programmers’ fees who put it in.

[Eric_LeVine]

@Serge Birbrair

@Eric LeVine

… but CT is a healthy, small business.

…and we all here want to keep it this way (health wise)

You have our support, Eric.

Thank you Serge, that is appreciated. Are we past yesterday now?

[Eric_LeVine]

[Joel_Pulver]

My wines will work great as soon as they get around the “Sneaker Net” problem.