Thursday, March 11, 2010

Still here

Hi,

I am still working on Screens as you probably can see by my twitter stream. Its still taking me forever to design the interfaces. Once I have an interface design, coding is very quick per component. I just spend alot of time perfecting my interfaces.

I know… I am a perfectionist and this system will never be more than vaporware. But even if so, I owe my full time job to Screens from all the years of research that I am able to use in my coding at work. Many of the projects I work on are directly affected by my work on Screens over the years. So even if Screens never leaves the ground, it has given me my paycheck. Not too shabby.

I think its safe to conclude that PalmOS is out of the picture not because of me but because of Palm. Everyone said that someone else will beat me to the punch, but it looks like the ship sank before that ever happened. Probably why the ship sank.

If I get back to the alpha stage that I got to two years ago, that would be great and show that at least I am doing something. Luckily Screens is multi-platform so it can just be ported to the handheld platform at the time. Again, once I reach the alpha stage again, I will upload my sources back into SVN.

I am now 26, married for 5 years with a 3 1/2 year old son and a 2 year old daughter working at a high-tech job. Screens gave me the last bit.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Glad to know you're still alive. I continue to watch because I think you've got some really great ideas, and not a whole lot of people have realized them yet.

Alphasmart User said...

Hi. I continue to watch you as well (I don't know if you have a hit counter here to tell you that or not...) I anticipate seeing your many ideas work out, as you have many cool ones, and I also anticipate using your API's, as they actually look kind of fun to use.

May you have the best of luck!