Version Numbers and You

My best advice to anyone thinking of starting such a project: put together a road-map now. List the features you want to see in your program, and then cull it down to three milestones:

1. The bare minimum you would need to implement before you let anyone see your code.
2. The bare minimum functionality you would need to implement before people could legitimately make use of your code.
3. As above, but stable and well-documented enough to be used in a production system (for libraries), or by non-programmer end-users (for applications)

Milestone 1 is your v0.5. Milestone 2 is v0.9. Milestone 3 is v1.0.

[Via The Fishbowl]

The Real Underground shows the iconic contemporary London Underground map, Harry Beck's original 1933 version, and a geographically correct version, with a very pleasing morph between the three. Cool toy. [Via Small Values of Cool]