Getting Jappleng completed is very tough because I'm in a spot where I have to design and build the website by myself. It wasn't always like this, but after being backstabbed by a trustworthy "friend", I couldn't imagine sharing the idea of Jappleng with others until recently without fear that others would take the idea or source code and run, like someone did in the past.

I am fortunate to say that there are those few who occasionally help with new articles, or editing, and sometimes even programming. I know that Nick was really cool at volunteering his time by working on some flash stuff, and Lammert was amazing at helping build the content management system. There are others here and there who helped and I will give them full credit when the time is right, but the people who have helped me the most is all of those who kept active in the forums, in the chat, and even those who added me to IM services saying that Jappleng is a great idea and that I need to keep going. Those people helped me the most because without them I would have given up a long time ago.

Jappleng isn't about money, it's about what it represents. I hope that more businesses act more this way but when you're leashed to shareholders (which Jappleng is not) you are stuck making the most profit as possible.

I suspect that within 2-weeks the entire community section will be completed with the exception of various features that I cannot program myself like the IMC, or Nakama Robot. That means that the forums, image-boards, and Blog system will be entirely completed. I hope that JSpot Connect will have a decent interface by then, in fact I haven't even designed that section so it will take some creative thinking from going from paper to computer.

Once those two-weeks have passed, I am looking forward to completing all the other sections on the website, knocking out one at a time. I will likely start with the inJapan section, though I'm not too sure just yet. It will depend on my mood on what I want to work on to be honest but overall, everything needs to be completed before December.

So what happens in December? Stay tuned for my next blog post to find out!