On or around March 30, Marketcircle shipped the latest version of its flagship business information management tool, Daylite. The new version, 3.9, includes a re-write of the back-end to work on a completely different database system (postgreSQL), a new dedicated server and server administrator application, and support for our new iPhone companion app, Daylite Touch. Since then, we’ve been working out issues with, ah, unique network set-ups and general fault-tolerance and recovery. We were very happy with the launch, and will be even more satisfied when we ship the next point release (hopefully this week).

Now we’re in the strange state between major projects—at least, some of us are. A few of the engineers have already started another project. I’m not completely sure what I’m working on next. I still have a few bugs to fix and there was one feature that isn’t quite finished… I’m sure I’ll be knee-deep in something new and cool soon enough. Now I’m just finally trying to catch my breath. I had a bonus vacation week a couple of weeks ago, but it was so soon after launch that I was really just working shorter hours from home, at least for the first few days. I’m not really a workaholic, but it’s not easy to completely let go, either, especially when “work” is something you’ve helped build from scratch.

Six weeks from now, Apple’s WWDC is happening again in San Francisco. The entire Marketcircle engineering team is going, which is pretty amazing. I haven’t been since 2004, when I went—for the second time—on a student scholarship. Nowadays it’s overrun with iPhone developers, which is cool, I guess, but I expect I’ll be sticking to obscure stuff of significance to servers, networking, data storage and programming languages. Maybe I’ll find room for one or two iPhone sessions and one or two user interaction sessions. I always like the Mac OS X and Cocoa State of the Union presentations, where they summarize the road maps and new technologies. Bertrand Serlet always does a great show.