Despite my best efforts to move forward with a new release of HappyFish I have not been able to get it out the door.  HappyFish is a side project for me and as such comes after my work obligations and family.  I genuinely wanted to release a new feature-rich bug-free version, but I have to admit that I don’t have time for it.  If I get a few moments over the summer I’ll continue to tinker with it, but officially I’m suspending development.  I will leave this site up for downloading of the current release.  I will also leave the forum up for community interaction.  Most of the bugs in the current release are documented in some fashion in the forum.  Thank you to all the HappyFishers who have made this project so fun and rewarding.

I haven't done much lately in the way of posting on the blog and wanted to quickly give you HappyFishers an update on where things are headed.  It has been about two and a half years since I started writing HappyFish, and what started as a messy little tool shack has grown into a decent sized application.  During the transisiton from the .net framework 1.1 to 2.0 I did quite a bit of clean up and restructuring of the code.  However, at its heart, HappyFish was (and still is) a disorganized tool shack.  What that means for you are a few lingering bugs or poorly patched ones and for me a code base that is difficult to maintain and extend.  I am in the process of rewriting HappyFish the way it should have been from the beginning.  I've wanted to do this for a while and finally feel that the current release is stable enough to last for the rest of the year on its own so that I can devote my attention completely to the rewrite.  I started this process a month ago and have made great progress, but it's slow going.  It will be worth it though.

In the meantime, tell a friend - or even a total stranger - about HappyFish.