I wrote earlier that we started using Apollo to develop Apollo. That step was really quite huge. On one hand, it told us that Apollo was finally a _product_ -- something useful to anybody, including us.

We have just about finished developing tags, and we are loving it already. As Apollo users, tags are making our lives much easier.

Here is what tags look like:

A few users pointed out that they are getting a strange warning: if they use something “quite recent” like Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, when they log into Apollo they get a big warning telling them to upgrade to a better and faster browser.

It reads like this:

You are using Internet Explorer 8. While we do support it, you will miss out on a few graphical goodies, and A LOT of speed. You should consider upgrading to a modern browser like Chrome 5, Firefox 3.6 or Safari 5.

When we released Apollo in private beta, which required invite codes to join, we didn't quite expect such a response.

Many users replied to us sending us ideas, feature requests, or simply saying "thank you". Well, this is from us:

Thank _you_.

Your help and feedback is invaluable to us. Keep those emails coming -- we will answer all of them timely, and we will listen to everything you say (and create tickets in our development system...).

We still have invites left; so, keep asking for them!

Thanks,

Merc.

Developing something like Apollo is very challenging -- and very rewarding. What's most rewarding, is knowing that we are using... Apollo, in order to develop Apollo. Yes, that's right!

Apollo is a pretty big project, and it requires intense collaboration amongst those who work on it. I am the project's black sheep -- I am in Australia, which is a little "out of the way" so to speak. With the rest of the team a few thousand miles from me, we use Apollo every day in order to make things happen. And it works!

Hello friends,

my name is Andrea Di Clemente. I am the owner of Applicom. Applicom is a small company in the middle of Italy. I started it in 2001 with Enrico (who left after a little while). Both Enrico and I had worked as IT consultant for 5 years.

I am a programmer, hence the title of this first blog post.