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It beats building cathedrals that no one will ever use!
Dear Friends,
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Brian Coyne |
I've been burning the midnight oil for the past week because I received advance notice that the 730 Report was going to be doing a story on a book that we've already got featured in the marketplace and I was going to use the occasion to launch our new marketplace. Unfortunately — or fortunately for me — the story seems to have been held over. There's still a heck of a lot to do before I launch but I am steadily getting closer to being happy with all the programming. Not much will have seemed to have been going on if anyone has happened to look in on the site — www.catholica.com.au/marketplace/ — but there have been massive developments going on in the background readying it all to undertake the work it will eventually be called upon to do. When I think about it it's probably a massive undertaking I've taken on of endeavouring to create a software engine that will be capable of doing all the sorts of things one can see on a website like the ABC's — and that's taken a team of programmers with many more skills than mine to build over a couple of decades.
To borrow and adapt a line from Tom McMahon and The Beatles: it beats building cathedrals that no one will ever use I tell ya!*
Despite all that I am very close to the point of being able to launch something and I hope to be able to do that in the next day or two. At least the rudimentary framework will be in place although I expect that, like this main Catholica site, the development will be continuing on for years to come. This will continue to remain the main site even when all the new side of Catholica is in place.
The foregoing is a long way of saying there won't be a lead commentary today. I was going to bring you a very interesting review of Bishop Julian Porteous' book on priesthood by Dan Donovan but I'll hold that for a few more days.
<Link to the Spiritual Marketplace — almost there but not quite open for business yet!>
www.catholica.com.au/marketplace/
<Link to the Catholica forum — where the decision to welcome conservative Anglicans is getting a workout amongst other subjects>
www.catholica.com.au/www.catholica.com.au/forum/
*Well, a small number might — as some kind of museum! |
