Have you ever tried pushing an envelope?  The envelope skitters across the table willy nilly, and it seems at times as though there might be something better to do with the envelope like putting an address on it or a stamp.

Well, it seems as though lately all I'm doing is pushing the envelope, which is one of two polite ways of saying I'm not getting much coding done.  (The other popular euphemism is to say that May is a "building month"). 

On the one hand I got through some blocking tasks on another business, so that was a win for our time and billing project this month.  On the other hand, I've spent a lot of time this month installing Linux and trying to get a decent development environment going there.

That's a fair amount of hassle to get around the fact that Ruby on Rails tests run slowly on Windows -- a whole new operating system, a windows boot sector gone (yes, I did do a backup first, but still), a whole passle of new development tools to install and configure.

I hope that all this high tech arm waving has taught me a lesson about the kind of software our clients want.  It'll be the kind that's a lot easier to use than Linux, with outstanding security and nightly backups.  When it comes to time and billing, you want to be getting the invoice into the envelope.  Pushing the envelope is strictly for the nerds.

Welcome to Temposure.com, the home of our ParticleWave’s new time and billing software solution.  We’re developing the software itself offline in Ruby on Rails, and this will be its home when it’s done.  The process will be an incremental one, so we’ll be doing test deployment here long before we’re really ready for prime time, but naturally we won’t open it up to the public until it starts to shine.

Most time and billing solutions are the sort of things that users put off using – where entering their time for a project is really a chore rather than a natural day-to-day process.  What we’re shooting for with Temposure is a solution that really serves as an everyday task list and planning tool, and seamlessly lets you turn your to-do-list items into billable hours. 

Right now we’re quite early in the development, but I wanted to start letting you know how it’s progressing and setting up a site where we can promote the product and gather feedback from the user community.