April 2007

Having been forced onto Windows through my own stupidity I’ve been pleasantly surprised. LiveWriter is the dog’s nuts as a blog editor and using Firefox is a much better experience than on the Mac. Does this mean I’m being lured back to Wintel? No. Mac hardware provides a much more satisfying experience and with the current [...]

David Terrar of Twinfield just IM’d me to say he’s had a conversation with Mike McDerment of FreshBooks. They’re looking at a way of hooking the two services together. David’s talking to the chap who does the geeky stuff that makes those connections possible. This is a super smart and natural extension of what both [...]

Dan McWeeney and I had an interesting discussion about the importance of good design in software applications and services. Dan does most of his work in Ruby on Rails. I’m not a super geeky type. All I know is that Rails delivers some really good looking applications – like Basecamp, which has more than 1 million [...]

As I am temporarily Macless I’ve powered up the ol’ Windows XP box for the first time on over 18 months. The fan is so loud the machine sounds like an aircraft in permanent taxi mode. I’m playing with Live Writer. It’s darned good. Brain dead easy with a simple to understand interface and pretty [...]