Gadgetopia

Joel on Software - Friday, August 08, 2003: Joel Spolsky has fessed up to a big, fat loophole in CityDesk pricing. This is a great piece of software, so get it now to get it cheap. "...we promised to upgrade all CityDesk 1.0 Home or Pro Edition users to CityDesk ...

Joel on Software - Tuesday, August 26, 2003: Fog Creek has eliminated their Home Edition of CityDesk, thus upping the cheapest price from $79 to $299, which I find awfully depressing. "We used to have both a Home Edition and a Professional Edition. That was a brave experiment, which was, ...

CityDesk: Desktop Content Management: I found a link to this from that last item I posted: [ ] CityDesk is an affordable, full powered content management system (CMS) that you can run on your own computer. I downloaded the free edition (up to 50 pages), and I can say that it ...

Perfectionism: Joel makes some good points about how we programmers have a tendency to try make things perfect beyond any practical benefit. He's touched on this before as well, with a story about the Netscape refactoring. Perfectionism is a very dangerous quality in business and in life, because by being ...

Simplicity and ubiquity matter (or, How reality mugged Joel Spolsky): This a good post that discusses how Joel Spolsky changed his mind about user interfaces. I knew Spolsky was very thick-client oriented for a long time, but this post has some interesting insights and information on how and why he ...

How about Microsoft Access as a client-side content management tool? After playing around with Radio UserLand and CityDesk, I'm finding more and more utility in a client-side apps. They're responsive, they don't need to be connected (great for laptops or dial-up), and you can do a lot more with a ...

A Whole Lotta Features: This is a good tutorial on how to run an entire site from MT, but it runs into a problem that I've written about before. "...and you'll have to limit any site to six different types of information, but it should be clear that for a ...

New XML Features in Microsoft Office Access 2003: I've talked before about how Access would make a handy client-side publishing tool, a la Radio or CityDesk. Just this week, I've been doing some Access user interface programming, and I've been impressed with how good it is in that regard. However, ...

Neil at PDFMoto and I have been talking about software development, and the differences between the big, enterprise packages, and software from smaller companies. He made a great point, and gave me permission to reprint it: "Like so much software that seems very simple, under the hood PDFMoto is extraordinarily ...