Author: synaesmedia

Dave Winer’s podcast of May 21st has a good discussion of his coming OPML outliner, an example of what he’s calling an “Idea processor”. What does he want? Extreme easiness. Cool!

SdiDesk Wiki: DifferentBrowserRequest Could SdiDesk open links to external sites in another browser rather than IE? I’m sure it could, but it’s not so straightforward. Some experiments to be done.

Release Early, Release Often for proprietory software? I got a copy of Real Basic via their competitive upgrade scheme for Visual Basic owners a couple of months ago. I’ve looked at it, and at one point thought about porting SdiDesk to it. The deal breaker is that there’s no equivalent to Visual Basic’s DHTML control.…

A View from Elsewhere : Whatever Happened to the Micro ISV?

This, the SDI blog, blog is starting to warm up. Just added a call to my new (in progress) blogroll generating script. (See the right-hand column). And some, er, Google ads down the side. Why? What’s up with that? Well, I’m a “portfolio worker” (read, under-employed). I have a regular part-time job, teaching programming in…

If you do a search for the word “wiki” on Amazon.com, it’s surprisingly empty. I suspect there’s an opportunity for someone there … 🙂 Update : that’s interesting. Amazon tells me I have a bug in the browser when I click that link. Seems like you can’t simply copy the URL from search result pages.

Joel Spolsky’s Project Aardvark gives Fog Creek’s student temps a chance to build a product from scratch in four weeks. They’re making a video too.

Well, that’s not too bad. Only a year and five months since the first post 😉 But now, SDI the blog is being resurected from hibernation … just as SdiDesk 0.2.2 is released. Watch this space … (but you can talk quietly amongst yourselves while you’re waiting.)

How disorganized is this … I’m starting this blog a couple of days before going on holiday … come back late January when the whole thing kicks off.