{"id":231,"date":"2011-12-08T23:06:15","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=231"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:52:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:52:32","slug":"starting-a-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2011\/12\/08\/starting-a-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting a Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a long list of ideas. Why have I chosen OSTD? Well &#8211; it had to be something I was passionate about, and I am always proud to tell people that my software is translated into 40 languages. I would love to be able to say that with my help hundreds of other software was also translated into many languages.<\/p>\n<p>Then I needed to make a balance between time\/patience\/skills required and those available. I know what I can do and I know what I can learn but how much time and patience I will have is a more complicated question.<\/p>\n<p>To help me with that I made a list of use cases, which I&#8217;ll call &#8216;features&#8217;. With my understanding of the technology &#8211; given the list of use cases I could figure out whether this is doable in reasonable time. The feature list also helps when choosing what to do next and how to structure a database.<\/p>\n<p>An overarching concern is &#8211; will people be interested in using this service? That question is just as relevant whether it&#8217;s an open source project or a commercial venture. I coulnd&#8217;t see the answer, so I had to take a leap of faith before finally deciding to go ahead. After all, if it were obvious that it would be a success, then someone would have probably done it already. I&#8217;m hoping that a leap of faith is necessary when taking on something new and exciting :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a long list of ideas. Why have I chosen OSTD? Well &#8211; it had to be something I was passionate about, and I am always proud to tell people that my software is translated into 40 languages. I would love to be able to say that with my help hundreds of other software &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-231","6":"format-standard","7":"category-ostd","8":"category-safeforseneca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}