I finally had the guts to put up my work for public consumption. It’s not much but it is a start. I have been meaning to do it for a good number of months and years but I haven’t really got down to organizing anything as yet. Recently though, I read an article by Tom Preston-Werner who is one of the co-founders of Github. He brings up the idea of “Readme Driven Development” and personally, I think it does make sense.

I’ve been keeping track of all the features of my half-completed projects in a simple textfile – basically a list of how it all works and what the software needs to do. But it’s tough. It’s also pretty disorganized. I’m not sure how great a README file will improve things but I am willing to try. At the very least, forcing myself to think about other people reading my code will get me focused on customers right?

Without further delay, introducing Takoyaki — a simple link manager. Ever since Delicious was sold, things just started to get wonky and cluttered. I had been using a plain old Google Docs to save my links but I thought it might be a simple enough to build a link manager on my own. I decided to use Java in Google App Engine for no real purpose other than to learn it. Haven’t really tested it yet so don’t take my word for it just yet! It should save links for you under your Google Account. I’m hoping to add more features in future releases.