Significant day for us today... the release date of our second product, Automise! :)
(sorry, nothing to do with Dory's and Marlin's victory song...)
Now granted... Automise is largely based on FinalBuilder (ie. same actions, same engine, same UI, etc), but it has taken the best part of four months full time - which was a lot longer than we anticipated.
It's amazing how "FinalBuildery" a lot of the code was.... for example, the error messages, captions in the UI, system variables visible in the user interface, help file, file extensions, etc. So all this had to be made generic and driven by constants and defines - which is certainly easy to do, but when you've got to go over hundreds of thousands of lines of code it gets a little tedious after a while. We've also had some good beta testers help with all this... so big thanks to them! :)
The help file still needs some work; we're using the same Help&Manual file to generate both the FinalBuilder and Automise help files - each with slightly different content. There are a few hundred screen pictures which still need updating, but not much point holding up the release for that.
And one of the pre-requisites was to update the website. The new website was finished last week and is a vast improvement over the old FinalBuilder one - all based on DotNetNuke which has proved to be quite a good experience (especially for people like us who are a little graphically challenged).
Now we've just got to wait for that first sale!