After many, many weeks of “should be ready real soon now”, the new SamePlace web site and a release candidate of SamePlace Suite 0.7 are available.

The first thing you’ll probably notice about both is the user interface. Most of the merit for it goes to Andrea Cuius. I’ll talk more about this and the numerous other changes that happened under the hood in the release notes for 0.7.

I like documentation that looks like a laboratory notebook—not a linear and sure path from problem to solution, but a record of the paths tried, including the bad ones, reasons why they were bad, intuitions that led toward the solution, and ideas about where to go next.