James Inman - Blog

The Xero iPhone App

2012-09-04T23:00:00+00:00

Xero is an online accounting service, like FreeAgent or ClearBooks. I’m going to write about the Xero iPhone application.

Not because it’s something that changes my life, or even that I use for long periods of time. I’m notoriously picky about what I use, but I only use this app for about 15 minutes a week, when I’m adding a train ticket. So why is it getting the honour of a blog post? Well, because it’s just not nearly as good as it could be. Xero aren’t a startup, their entire business is online accounting - and on mobile, their competitors are doing it better.

This is the login screen. You can’t get a login screen wrong - it’s simple. Except, this app doesn’t keep you logged in (even though it says it does). Even worse than that, if you hit the home button in the middle of using the app, you have to login again. And sometimes it forgets your login details too. Saywhat? Oh, and sometimes it gives you the option to set a security code and use that. And then it forgets that every time, too.

I press a button to enter a new expense. So far so good. I have to stick in who the expense is “From” (it would be nice if the app just worked out it was me logged in and defaulted to me, but let’s not split hairs here, I can see how being able to choose is certainly useful). However, this has to be one of the best autocompletes I’ve ever used. I need to stick “James Inman” in. But until I actually press J A M E S [SPACE], the autocomplete doesn’t start filtering. Annoying.

Then, I get options for ‘Price’, a photo, or ‘Add Details’. For some reason I’m not entirely sure of, I can add a “line item” (one single receipt), which has a description, and a price, and a tax rate. So I go in and do all this. The list of accounts is long - the pretty decent MobileAgent app for FreeAgent does something really nice here and shows your ‘most recently used’ at the top.

For some reason then, I usually have to go in and enter the price again. I still can’t work out why this isn’t magically worked out for me!

I then hit the photo button to get or take a photo. The obvious show-off that this isn’t a native application (as well as the autocomplete) is that if I hit this by accident, the overlay won’t go away, and sometimes it just gets stuck. It’s perfectly possible to make nice applications using things like Titanium and PhoneGap (see WunderList for an example of something that’s really nice on iOS), but with the things like this you can really tell.

My internet has been known to conk out whilst I’m on a train taking a photo of a receipt, and at that point it will simply crash and I’ll have to start all over again. Again, mobileAgent has an absolutely brilliant feature here - you can use the application with no internet access (Xero won’t even let you launch it), and just hit ‘upload’ when all of your receipts are ready. It really cuts down on the delay when you’ve got a few.

Once all that’s done, I can see my expense claims. Fantastic. Except, in the stupidest workflow known to man - that I’m sure is nothing to do with the iOS developer(s) and everything to do with Xero’s developers themselves - you have to launch the application on a desktop web browser to be able to then choose and ‘submit for approval’ your expense receipts. I can’t for the life of me understand why. I raised this with Xero a few months ago, and it just disappeared into the black hole.

I’m sure that the developer(s) that work on this application have built what is overall a functional application. But when it’s so close to being a decent application, the things here that would make a huge difference - offline access, expense submission from the mobile application, ‘native’ responsiveness - just haven’t been considered. These are things that the vast majority of users aren’t going to bother about, but it’s what moves an app from “useable” to something that you actually want to use. And as a developer, that’s important.

Start Over

2012-07-19T23:00:00+00:00

I’ve lost count of the number of times something has happened to me - an event, more times than not, of my own making - where I’ve thought that this might be, well, it. There comes a point when you ask the question “Is this it? Is this all I will be remembered for?” Is one event, for want of a better word, going to be your legacy? Or can you change it?

If there’s one thing I’ve learnt recently, it’s this. Start over. You are not the sum of your mistakes, nor are you constrained by your achivements. You have the capacity to be whoever you want to be. But more than that, you have the ability to start over again. Work out what your dreams are, and get there. Small steps, if you can - big, crazy, chaotic steps, if you don’t have time. Days blur into months blur into years, and every day you can bring yourself a little closer to the person you want to be.

If after all that, you’re still not where you want to be? Start over. Take a leap of faith, with your friends and family around you, or even by yourself. Jump. The only real thing you can do with your life is to take chances on yourself.

For every day when that seems too difficult, I’m finding the solution is simple. Go out and find out - however much you initially disbelieve - how much you mean to people. Use that as your drive, your inspiration, and your meaning.

I started over. These days, I wake up every morning with two simple goals: make someone I care about have a better day, and get a little closer to my dreams. It’s enough. This is a better life.

Thank you to everyone taking this ride with me.

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Songs That Make A Difference, Part 1

2012-07-15T23:00:00+00:00

I’m never one to turn down an excuse to write a blog about music, or talk about music, or generally just go on and on and on about music… so when I saw Carole’s last blog post ‘Monday Mixtape’, or rather, songs that remind her of friends and family and places, I knew I had to give it a shot!

The problem was, I couldn’t really stop at 10 songs… so this is split into two posts. Here’s the first part.

ABBA - The Winner Takes It All (Super Trouper, 1980)

This is one of my songs for Sixth Form from school. I ended up sequencing this as part of my A-Level Music Tech coursework, and there’s only so long you can go on before you realise that actually it’s recorded with quite a few layered pianos… I was also having a bit of an emotional tizz over a girl at the time, so it seemed fitting!

The Ataris - San Dimas High School Football Rules (Blue Skies, Broken Hearts… Next 12 Exits, 1999)

The Ataris’ “Blue Skies, Broken Hearts… Next 12 Exits” was the first album I ever bought with my own money. San Dimas is the quintessential Ataris track - decent lyrics, punk rock, and sounds awesome in acoustic. I went on a family holiday to France that summer, and I had a little Discman with me (the pre-MP3 days, wow…). I don’t think I took this album off rotation for two weeks.

Ani DiFranco - Falling Is Like This (Out Of Range, 1994)

This is one of the songs that reminds me of Nona. At odd points in the last however many years, she’s sent me music. I think we’ve probably agreed on about 5 songs in that time!

Barbra Streisand - As If We Never Said Goodbye (The Concert, 1994)

I love this song (it’s from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard”), because it’s one of my favourite things to play on piano, but this version is from Barbra Streisand’s first concert appearance in 27 years, due to stage fright. This track opened the concert, with rewritten lyrics, and it’s stunning as a vocal performance and as a set - watch it - the audience reaction as she sings “I’ve come home at last…” is quite something.

My uncle Steve is a huge Barbra Streisand fan, and this reminds me of sitting watching this as a child with him.

The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun (Abbey Road, 1969)

I’m not as big a Beatles fan as I rightly should be, but this song never fails to make me smile.

Billie Myers - Kiss The Rain (Growing, Pains, 1997)

This is one of mine and Chelle’s songs (yes, I know, get the mushy away from the blog… wait, it’s my blog!)

Billy Joel - Falling Of The Rain (Cold Spring Harbor, 1971)

This is another one of my uncle Steve’s. We sat up one night discussing our favourite albums, and he brought out Cold Spring Harbor, which was Billy Joel’s first solo album. The album was mastered wrongly, and had Joel’s voice up a step and too fast. It was reissued in 1983 with much of the original orchestration stripped out. It’s so far away as an album from his following work - the track “Tomorrow Is Today” comes from a suicide note Joel left - but there’s a rawness in the songwriting that it’s hard to find, too. Falling Of The Rain has the most beautiful - and fast - piano arpeggios.

Billy Joel - Piano Man (Piano Man, 1973)

Billy Joel’s signature song. I love it for the “missing verse”, which was stripped from the single that went out to radio.

He says, “Bill, I believe this is killing me”
As a smile ran away from his face
“Well, I’m sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place”

Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he’s talking with Davy, who’s still in the Navy
And probably will be for life

Bread - Make It With You (On The Waters, 1970)

Bread were a wonderful soft rock band, and this song always makes me smile. I ended up listening to quite a few of their tracks late one night last year with my auntie Julie, and this one sticks out.

Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is (The Way It Is, 1986)

Bruce Hornsby has to be one of the best pianists in history. This song, though, is just beautiful. If I had to pick my favourite ever song, I think this would probably do it.

They say “Hey, little boy, you can’t go
Where the others go
‘Cause you don’t look like they do”
Said “Hey, old man, how can you stand
To think that way?
Did you really think about it
Before you made the rules?”

He said, “Son,
That’s just the way it is
Some things will never change
That’s just the way it is
But don’t you believe them”

Bryan Adams - Heaven (Reckless, 1984)

This song reminds me of my friend Jenny. I was fairly obsessed with it for about a year when I was at school, and our lives were revolving around reading… and Harry Potter… and for some reason this always reminds me of that.

Carrie Underwood - Don’t Forget To Remember Me (Some Hearts, 2005)

This is one of the (many) songs that reminds me of Emily. We shared a lot of music at university, and she got me into Carrie Underwood (and, thinking about it, Taylor Swift). But this is a song about leaving home, and it seemed so very fitting at the time.

Deacon Blue - Dignity (Raintown, 1987)

This is a song about an old litter-collector saving money to buy a dinghy. It’s mine and my Dad’s song - every Sunday night I’m at home I make a playlist for my parents and me to eat dinner with, and this nearly always ends up on it.

My First Few Months At Mediaburst

2012-07-13T23:00:00+00:00

It hasn’t escaped my attention that I’ve been a bit useless recently… one of my 101 Things goals is to blog every week until the list is done. That’s 143 blog posts, and makes me 5 posts behind schedule. Oops. Anyway, I realised I’ve yet to actually blog about what I do day-to-day these days, and it seemed as good a time as any to reflect on my first few months working at Mediaburst.

Firstly, it’d be crazy not to acknowledge the huge culture shift from previous jobs. The team are absolutely wonderful to work with, and in three months, no-one’s got particularly stressed or angry. We don’t do long hours, and yet all the work still gets done - I don’t think I’ve been in the office past 6pm, and everyone’s normally out by 5:30pm or so. The nicest thing for me though is the lack of meetings - because we’re a small team (there’s 8 of us), we chat briefly about things and then decisions get made. Quickly and with no fuss! There’s no daft levels of management either - Gary, who we refer to as “kind of like the boss”, is the MD. We all report to him, and it works really well. Gary did a recent interview here about Mediaburst that’s worth a read.

I’ve been mostly working on our online staff leave planner, Timetastic, since I started. It’s been really good fun, and it’s got to a stage where we’re nearly at launch. If you do one thing, watch the video - Harry, our little Timetastic mascot, goes and books a holiday to Bognor Regis for £30! The application’s a JRuby/Rails stack with a fairly heavy amount of database caching included, running on Tomcat. I’m not enjoying working with Tomcat, mostly because it seems to have a mind of its own sometimes when you try and deploy to it, but I’ve been fairly impressed with JRuby. I could do without the Java VM loading every time you want to do anything though… it reminds me of this XKCD.

I’ve also been working on building the mobile applications for Timetastic. Although I originally started looking at the standard Objective-C/Cocoa development process for iOS development, due to time constraints we made a decision to go with PhoneGap. I’ve really not been impressed - at the end of the day, you can’t get away from the fact you’re building a web view, and even with bridging to native APIs, there’s a slight amount of lag everywhere, and tiny little quirks that just wouldn’t exist with a native application, that never quite let you forget it. I spent a week or so learning Objective-C and next time I’ll definitely go with that if I get a choice!

Aside from that, I’ve been doing quite a lot of design work. Gary and I have the same kind of instincts on design - we’re taking a lot of influence from 37signals, and site designs like Square and Path. I keep pushing the envelope with my design skills - a year or two ago I was very unimpressed with my design skills (I didn’t have any!) but the more time I’ve spent trying to build nice user interfaces and designs the easier it’s started to come.

I’m now working on Timetastic, as we keep getting decent user feedback as we head out of beta, and also working on Textburst, our bulk SMS application for businesses (plus, my C#/.NET isn’t as rusty as I thought it was!). It’s all go at Mediaburst - we’re splitting our website out into 3 separate sites, rebranding our SMS API, launching Timetastic, and still working on lots of plugins for applications. We’ll also be sponsoring LeedsHack at the end of the month with a cool challenge for use of our SMS APIs that I’ll be judging.

It’s been a few months at Mediaburst and I’m loving it. :)

My 101 Project; Announcing 101things.me

2012-06-02T23:00:00+00:00

Many years ago, I kicked off a few projects which were “101 Things In A Year”. They were modelled on the “101 Things In 1001 Days” (sometimes known as “Day Zero Project” 3or “Mission 101”). Back when I was finshing school, although I enjoyed it, I was restricted to a year or so because I was never sure what I’d be doing after it!

Life’s thankfully a little more settled now, and I’ve thought over the last few weeks about starting a 101 things list - but this time, for the standard 1001 days, which is 2 and a bit years. I’ve chatted to some friends about it, and bounced the list off everyone from my parents to work colleagues - so everyone knows I’m doing it!

I decided to kick off with a start date of June 1st (Friday), and I spent the weekend at Over The Air 2012, on a 24-hour hackday. My hack was to make a decent web application for tracking goals. Some already exist, but only for really basic goals - for example, “read a book”. What I wanted was that when there’s a goal such as “read 10 books”, there should be a progress-o-meter that tells me how far through those 10 books I am!

So, although there’s still quite a few things I’d like to do to it, you can visit 101things.me (although probably only in Safari and Chrome or on the iPhone for now…) and get started if you want to track any of your own goals!

As for me, I’ll be updating my list here, but I’ll also be blogging quite a bit about things as I do them. I should also be blogging a lot more in general, as one of my goals is to write a blog post a week, on average - 149 until the list’s done! This will be imamongst my normal (rare) blog posts on technology, life, and random quotes…

I’ve now got an RSS feed, or you can always follow me on Twitter for updates.

Levon

2012-04-18T23:00:00+00:00

Levon Helm’s website, today:

Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul.

Levon Helm wasn’t just a fantastic drummer but an amazing roots and country singer. In 1998, after being diagnosed with throat cancer, he couldn’t speak. He staged a fairly incredible comeback, winning two Grammy awards in the last decade. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him #91 in the list of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

The Band performing The Weight in 1976:

Marc Cohn’s Listening To Levon:

NYTimes Obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/arts/music/levon-helm-drummer-and-singer-dies-at-71.html

The Power Of Vulnerability

2012-04-08T23:00:00+00:00

I’ve just watched Brene Brown’s TED talk on The Power Of Vulnerability:

This is what I have found: to let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen; to love with our whole hearts, even though there’s no guarantee – and that’s really hard, and I can tell you as a parent, that’s excruciatingly difficult – to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, when we’re wondering, “Can I love you this much? Can I believe in this this passionately? Can I be this fierce about this?” just to be able to stop and, instead of catastrophizing what might happen, to say, “I’m just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I’m alive.” And the last, which I think is probably the most important, is to believe that we’re enough. Because when we work from a place, I believe, that says, “I’m enough,” then we stop screaming and start listening, we’re kinder and gentler to the people around us, and we’re kinder and gentler to ourselves.

My Setup

2012-04-06T23:00:00+00:00

I’m a big fan of The Setup, where prominent technology people - and other interesting technically-minded folks - post on what they use to get their day-to-day job done. I’m always interested in what other people use, so I thought I’d go into a bit of detail about my setup.

Hardware

My main machine is a mid-2010 27” iMac with a 2.93GHz i7 processor and 8GB of RAM. It’s plugged into a 22” HP w2216 monitor, which is a few years old now but works perfectly well as a second monitor. I’m using an Apple Wireless Keyboard and Apple Magic Trackpad and for the all-important music, it’s rigged up to a BOSE Companion 3 speaker system, which is perfect as it still packs enough punch to shake my house. I’m running a fairly cheap Brother inkjet printer which I hate and will be replacing with a HP model at some point, and I’ve got a few years old Dell 1320c Colour Laser Printer, which is still incredible value, fast, and has decent print quality.

For when I’m on the move, I’m using a mid-2011 11” MacBook Air with a 128GB SSD and upgraded to 4GB of RAM. I’ve been through a variety of Apple laptops (from the original 15” MacBook Pro through to the unibody 13” MacBook Pro), but the Air is so small and portable - easy to whip out on a train or bus - and yet so fast thanks to the SSD that it’s one of the best machines I’ve ever owned. At work, this is plugged into a 24” monitor and another Apple Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad.

I’m never too far away from my iPhone 4, which I got modded to white a few months ago after I felt like a change! I’ve also got a Kindle Touch, which I’ve had since they were released in the US. I still find the pageturns and general responsiveness a little too sluggish on this, but the ability to use a touch interface is great. It only tends to get read when I’m somewhere where a weight allowance is an issue though - I’m still buying paper books, at least until the format war dies down a little and eBooks become noticeably more affordable.

My home network is running through a Netgear DGND3300 ADSL router which I’d have recommended until the wireless on it gave out, a few Apple Airport Express base stations, and some ethernet-over-power blocks.

I’ve also got a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX30 camera which doesn’t come out with me nearly as much as it should (I’d love to get into photography), and I’d be lost without my Lumie Arabica SAD lightbox on my desk. I’ve got a Yamaha YDP-131 electric piano.

Software

Both my computers are running OS X 10.7. I seem to live in TextMate 2 Alpha and Terminal, both using the IR_Black theme. My email is Google Apps running through Mail.app, which would be pretty perfect for me if it displayed smileys from Microsoft Outlook properly and had a one-button “mark as junk in Gmail” button. I’m a huge fan of iTunes and am meticulous about organising my music, but also use VLC for playing video a lot because iTunes’ support is actually fairly shoddy. Web browsing is these days in Google Chrome because Safari started throwing a paddy with Youtube’s Flash/HTML5 switchover.

For instant messaging, I use Adium, with Skype when I’m forced to by a few contacts who are never signed in on anything else, LimeChat for IRC, and I use the official Twitter client. All my image editing is done in Adobe Fireworks CS5, which I’ve used for so long that switching feels odd (even though there are some great alternatives out there now). I use Aperture for organising my photo library, Unison for usenet, Transmit for FTP, and Reeder for Mac for reading RSS feeds.

I use Alfred as a launcher and it saves me more time than I dare to count, and I also love Hues as a colour finder and HTTPClient for working with APIs.

My iPhone is generally always running the latest beta release of iOS. My non-default applications on the home screen are Instapaper and NetNewsWire for reading, UK Train Times and MyBus for commuting, and Tweetbot for Twitter.

This website is generated using nanoc and a lot of Markdown, and all my code is hosted on Github. I scrobble my recent tracks to last.fm.

My Ideal Setup

What I really want at the moment is an SSD in the iMac, but I can’t find anyone who’ll retrofit one and the instructions look seriously scary. For the sake of having everything match and look pretty, if money wasn’t an object, I’d replace my additional monitor with an Apple Cinema Display. Aside from that, I find my biggest issues come from a lack of connectivity whilst on the move - so I’d love nationwide 3G coverage. I’m also probably slowly but surely killing my back sitting at my home desk, but there’s no way I can justify an Aeron…

Using Ordinal Dates In jQuery UI’s Datepicker

2012-03-30T23:00:00+00:00

It seems like I’m the only person in the world who likes ordinal date suffixes – the jQuery UI team don’t seem to see any use for them. Here’s a simple way to get ordinal date suffixes (st, th, nd) in your datepicker date formats.

End Of An Era

2012-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
JIMMY CARTER

After 13 and a half months, today is my last day at Meritec. It’s been a fun ride – I’ve spent my time building internal systems, doing a large ground-up rewrite of an e-learning system, and, most of the time, on CPOMS. I’m moving on, next week, to pastures new, and exciting things. I just wanted to reflect for a moment, though.

This product – it seems almost an understatement to call it a product – has been my life for the last two years. I’ve lived and breathed it. There’s been all-nighters, frantic days full of sales visits, even more frantic days of coding, trips to the Houses of Parliament, endless meetings with lawyers and accountants and I can honestly say it’s been one of the hardest and most rewarding things I’ve ever done.

Rewind two years: I was up in the North East working on another software idea when after a chance conversation with a friend who was doing some work in a school I started to have a crazy idea. In the aftermath of the Victoria Climbié and Peter Connelly cases, the inquiries (and indeed, essentially every local authority Serious Case Review that had been undertaken after the death of a child) had heavily criticised the communication between different agencies – social care, the NHS, schools, police, and the like. Now, it was a crazy idea to be able to fix that problem, but it was never far from my mind. I kicked off a few months of research in which I decided that the thing to do was start at the schools, and go from there. This linked well into my own schooling, too – and the fact that if one teacher knows about something, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the correct information’s been recorded so a child can be adequately protected.

Fast-forward a few months and I’d built a proof of concept that was in a few schools, and then a few months later was in the process of looking for funding before various situations came to a head at once and that never worked out. It’s a good thing it didn’t – there simply weren’t enough hours in the day to develop, support and sell a product that was growing at the rate it was. Instead, last January, I took the product to Meritec, where I did or played a part in every sales visit until about two months ago, as well as writing the vast bulk of the code for the product.

I’m leaving Meritec with my head held high, and leaving behind something I’m exceptionally proud of for the team there to work on. The developments I initiated after I’ve handed my notice in have been much needed improvements to take the product – already successful and with better customer feedback from schools than I ever envisaged – to a level that’s just a little closer to that dream of integrating different schools and agencies together.

It was and still is a crazy, ambitious dream. It’d be difficult not to have gone through an experience like this without learning some lessons from it. So…

Hardware two-factor authentication is incredible in what it can achieve, and sends setup costs and times through the roof unless you’re doing it on a large scale.
Trying to make Ruby On Rails bend to handle multiple databases is really not something you should be trying to do. If you’re doing that, you’re using the wrong framework, or, more to the point, looking at your problem the wrong way.
No matter what accreditations or security measures you have in place (and the security has always been top-notch), nothing helps as much as honesty with your customers. We’re all human; no-one expects us to be infallible.
The state of software for education is a complete mess. The market is essentially controlled by Capita, RM, Pearson, and Serco. Small providers struggle, and the only way to really get “trust” in such a market is by getting in a car and visiting schools. Lots of them. This costs a lot of money.
Trying to break into a market without a specialist salesperson in that market with you is seriously, seriously, tough work.
One word of mouth referral is worth more than a month’s worth of cold sales approaches.
Intellectual property is the most pointless construct in software. Execution matters.
If everyone tells you you’re crazy to have an idea, you probably are. Keep going.

Mostly, I’m leaving behind knowing that my overarching principle when I built the product – get it in as many schools as possible to help as many children as possible – really, for me, ended up being what mattered, and I achieved it. If I could have found some way to do it, the product would have been given, for free, to every school in the country.

Nonetheless, I finish this knowing I’ve actually made some children’s lives better. The information I’ve helped create (and sometimes, collate) has been used in schools and in court cases and has actually helped. I can look at everything I’ve done over the last two years – a lot of mistakes, quite a few lessons, and many wonderful experiences – and know it’s all been worth it because of that. In some, small way, I just changed the world.

I couldn’t have done it without these people, and many more:

Dan Kolodziej: For countless’ days help and advice in the early days. I’ll never forget the contribution you made and the help you gave me.

To all at Meritec who believed in this product: Thank you for a great opportunity, and for getting it out to more people.

Nina Elphee: You’ve been more supportive than I could have ever asked for. Thank you so much.

Caius Durling: C, I think you’ve lived every single code bug I hit in this project over the last two years! Thanks for telling me Ruby was the way to go, thanks for being there to pick up the pieces and thanks for making me a better coder than I could ever have hoped to be.

Fi Stygall: I remember that conversation where I sketched that little diagram. It’s been hard and it’s broken me a few times, but I think I did what you taught me – I made it better for the ones who came after. I couldn’t have done it without you, doll. If I made a difference, it’s because of you.

Adrian Stygall: You’ve been a more supportive colleague and friend than I could have ever asked; you’ve given up your time way above and beyond the call of duty. Every development that’s in there right now (and some awesome things planned for the future!) ended up being built by a “what would Adrian think of this” philosophy. It didn’t let me down! Thank you. I hope you’re proud of what we achieved – I know I am.