Anvil... one month later
Its now September 1st. With August behind us I thought I would screencast the results, and talk about where we are.
Over all, I am quite happy with the progress. We have a working strong authentication server (SAS) that properly authenticates against CryptoCard KT hardware tokens. That was my vision at the beginning of last month... and that is the reality now.
So what next? Well, there is still a lot to be done before its ready for sale. It will have to go through some major testing. The product needs to become a solution, which will include documentation, an installer, a website, marketing materials etc. And I still have a company to run with other products, so much of my focus will need to be there. RWW-Guard is in its final beta stages as we prepare to start selling it, and the first few weeks of September will be focused on that, while Anvil gets shelved a bit. We will of course continue to dog food Anvil and use it in house... but it won't be until next month that we start installing it on external networks.
I will continue to blog the progress here... but it may be a bit infrequent compared to the amount of blogging I did in August. As we move forward in readying the product for commercial release, I will be sure to invite you to join me as we take it to release.
Thanks for tracking my progress. I do hope I was able to share in my experience over the month. I wish you the best in your own software development!
Anvil One Month Later Screencast [Flash ~3.5MB]
Comments
Congratulations and thanks for documenting your process for the public, it was definitely useful and interesting. Screencasts were an excellent idea. Let me add that your English was quite easy to understand, big help for me with my poor understanding of spoken English :)
I look forward the updates. Good luck!
Posted by: Peter | September 1, 2006 11:44 PM
I just want to tell you, that I do look very much forward for the further information about you product.
I would like to stress that for me, it would be wonderfuld if you shared the experience going into marketing and selling - just as you have done with development.
Thx again - u just costed me a nigth sleep ;-)
Posted by: Nicolaj S. Lindtner | September 6, 2006 11:35 PM
Dana,
I really enjoyed Project Anvil and the way you took us along with you during the development process.
When you are recording your screencasts, what type of microphone do you use?
Thanks, Mitch
Posted by: Mitch Milam | September 18, 2006 06:51 AM
Hey Mitch,
I am just using a cheap Telex computer microphone that came with one of my old desktop computers. I think they go for $5 or $10 bucks. I googled it, and a pic is on Amazon at: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000511XC.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Camtasia Studio does a good job of cleaning up the background noise etc that these cheap mics pick up.
Posted by: Dana Epp | September 18, 2006 09:03 AM