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“The Making of Jade 2.0”

12/07/2003

Whew! It’s been a lot of work, but Jade2 is starting to come around. “Jade2! you say?” Yep. I’ve been plugging away at parts of this for almost a year - though most of the effort has been in the last few months.

Some major improvements and features are being added:

  • new easy to use file format
  • new module format
  • new module development tools
  • many speed improvements
  • OS X native in how it interacts with the user

It has been a lot of work rebuilding all of Jade’s modules to work with the new system - I hope I never have to go through this again! I think I will not because the new format is much better and more flexible. The old format was somewhat arbitrary, and the new format is actually thought out based experiences and screen real-estate management. Part of what is making this difficult are clumsy decisions I made designing some the modules a couple of years ago…

I hope to have an experimental version ready for preview in a week. Time to shut this thing off! -Tim

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