Today, I decided to follow the advice given by Jason Fried, of 37signals.

So, I wrote the story of Noqr. A few sentences describing what it does.

Basically, something to refer to over the next few days to keep focus.

On another note, I decided to use Sparklines in the project. But keep smacking my head up against the dependency on ImageMagick.

Everything looked good, until I installed the ImageMagick binary for Mac OS X, and ran into the following error:

dyld: Library not loaded: /sw/lib/libjpeg.62.dylib

Damn!

I have avoided relying on DarwinPorts or Fink for years now. For 2 reasons, I like having everything compiled and installed in “standard” locations (/usr/local), and I don’t like the lag involved in relying on a 3rd party to compile, test and distribute new versions.

Looks like I may cave in and use DarwinPorts, but that will require some extra work to deploy on my server.

Anyway. Later tonight. The interface! :-)

Update:

Finished the basic layout of the main page, with color scheme, css and some copy.

Also mapped out the pages needed for the launch.

Not quite as far as I hoped, but good enough.

Time to sleep on it.

Tomorrow, more interface work and building ImageMagick on Mac OS X 10.4.2, without DarwinPort or Fink.