As you may have noticed, especially if you’ve sent a support request, things are currently going slowly here – I lag behind in answerings questions (this concerns, among other things, the reported problem with recent versions of Joomfish) and the 1.5 version of the module is still not feature complete.

Thing is, I’m not only swamped in work (that would be nothing new), I’m also caught in one of the nastiest traps for programmers – I work against a spec that does not actually make sense, so I have to try to mangle sense into the chaos by careful interpretation. That means I’m working or four or five hours, call the client to look at my work and spend the next four or five hours tearing everything down again. This is the kind of job I usually try to avoid, because even if they wanted to none of my clients could actually afford to put me through this kind of ordeal. But sometimes I have to put other things into consideration apart from money; even a one man shop sometimes needs to employ a certain degree of diplomacy.

Still, this means that at the moment I’m both overworked and underpaid, and this is not a good prerequisite to gather motivation for open source programming. Plus the modules mostly work, so there is no need for immediate intervention. I think (I hope!) that by the middle of the  next week the worst will be over and I can get back to do a bit module developement.