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Happy 2006!

January 8, 2006 / / 0 Comments

Hope everyone had a happy New Year. I’m just now getting caught up again after taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays. We went out to California to visit Katrina’s family for Christmas. After that we flew to Minnesota for a wedding on New Year’s Eve (my cousin got married). Overall it was a very enjoyable holiday season.

Family and friends gave me some great gifts this year, so that was pretty cool. Katrina bought me a Powershot G6 digital camera, which I have been wanting for a long time. I’ve already taken a few hundred pictures with it, and I’m pretty happy about the results so far. I’ll be heading down to the Detroit Auto Show next week, so I hope to get some good shots then. Though I haven’t posted any new pictures yet, I have a feeling my Flickr account will be more active now… 🙂

2005 Software Gift Ideas

December 12, 2005 / / 0 Comments

What a great gift idea! Seasonality was featured on the TidBITS 2005 Software Gift Ideas:

We have been surprised and pleased by a wonderful weather reporting program, Seasonality, by Gaucho Software. It’s $25 for a single license and $30 dollars for the family. We keep the locations of others in our family in the list.

Thanks! Seasonality 1.2 is coming along, but I’ve gotten slightly sidetracked with everything going on this holiday season.

Mac OSS Link

November 15, 2005 / / 0 Comments

“Open Source Mac is a simple list of the best free and open source software for Mac OS X. We aren’t trying to be a comprehensive listing of every open-source mac app, instead we want to showcase the best, most important, and easiest to use. This page should be a handy reference and a useful tool for getting more people to start using free and open-source software.”

Cool, they listed XRG in the Quick Links section on the bottom of page 2. There are some really good apps on the rest of the list, so check them out.

Complete Satellite Image

November 5, 2005 / / 0 Comments

Version 1.2 of Seasonality will include a new web export feature, so users can export data from Seasonality to a web page via templates. One thing I want to give users the option of doing is generating a full earth satellite image. This takes about 30 seconds to generate on my G5, so I expect that not everyone will want to enable it, but it’s available. Here’s one such image that I just generated a few minutes ago…


2005-11-05 5:20 am GMT, click to view full size.

To give you an idea, the full size image linked is still just 1/20th of the resolution available along each axis at 100% in Seasonality (1/400 of the total res). Ever since getting into collecting this weather and terrain data, I’m just totally amazed by it. In fact, a few weeks ago I just downloaded the second set of terrain imagery put out by the Blue Marble project, all 24Gb of it. It’s a set of 12 (1 for each month of the year) images, each with a res of 86400×43200 pixels. I’m not sure what I’ll do with it yet, but look for some kind of application of this imagery in a future version of Seasonality.

Software Updates

November 3, 2005 / / 0 Comments

A few software updates have been released today. First off, I posted Seasonality 1.1.1 this morning. This is a bug fix release with quite a few changes from version 1.1. Check out the changelog here and download it here. Next up is version 1.2 and development is already in progress.

The bigger update is actually some consulting work that I have been doing. As of a few months ago, DynDNS now supports an official Mac client (DynDNS Updater) for users of their DNS services. I have been maintaining the code and adding new features since this past May when we forked Julien Jalon’s DNSUpdate code. DynDNS Updater 1.2 was released today and includes a new Dashboard widget and a few bug fixes. I think the widget came out pretty nice, and I had a great time working on it with Jeremy and Chris over at DynDNS. Congrats on the release.

Surf-Bits Seasonality Review

October 25, 2005 / / 0 Comments

Surf-Bits posted an excellent review of Seasonality over on their site…

What I liked most about Seasonality was it’s ease of use and flexibility. It was extremely easy for me to setup multiple monitoring locations so I could at a glance see what the weather happened to be like in London while I was chatting on the phone with a client in England.

Adler!

October 25, 2005 / / 0 Comments

What can I say, Drunken Batman’s Evening at the Adler rocked. A lot of different topics were covered, from future directions in computer languages to working with customers from a small business standpoint. I won’t talk too much about the evening, as DB should be posting a video of the roundtable event soon.

The after party is what brought this event together. I got a chance to meet and talk to a lot of people that evening. I think it was great that many people from various online news sites were there. I spoke briefly with Clint and Jacqui from Ars Technica, Justin Williams from MacZealots.com, and Scott McNulty who was representing The Unofficial Apple Weblog. I’ve seen Justin at a couple of conferences in the past but have never had a chance to actually talk to him, so it was great to meet him this time around. Actually, he was interviewing some attendees of the event and asked me a few questions. There’s a PodCast posted on MacZealots.com with my interview mixed in with those of some very prominent developers. It’s kind of cool to see my name listed with these other big names that have been in the business much longer than I have. Thanks Justin!

I also talked to a lot of other developers at the event. I was a little surprised at how many people there worked (or will be working) at Apple. They had quite a showing for being headquartered out in California.

Overall I had a good time and I hope there’s other events like this in future years. It’s a great way to replace conferences like ADHOC and Mac OS X Con that have disappeared this past year.

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