I think this quote finally gets at what bugs me about so many FileMaker feature requests, those long lists of things that would somehow make one’s life as a developer easier:

Programmers are obsessed with ease rather than simplicity (thank you Rich Hickey for making this point); or, what the experience of programming is instead of what the resulting program is like. This leads to useless conversations about semicolons and whether we need a preprocessor that eliminates curly braces. We still talk about programming as if typing in the code was the hard part. It’s not – the hard part is maintaining the code.

From here; emphasis mine.

Thought everyone would like to see what it’s taking to keep FogBugz up after Sandy: http://status.fogcreek.com/page/2/

Hint…

Like a crazy hoarder I mistake the root cause of my growing mountain of incomplete work. The hoarder thinks he has a storage problem when he really has a ‘throwing things away problem’. I say I am ‘time poor’ as if the problem is that poor me is given only 24 hours in a day. It’s more accurate to say… what exactly?

…from here.

Todd’s very cool video interview with Bill Peloquin of Stat-Biomedical, discussing GoZync, offline apps, and SeedCode Calendar.

Reminded today that deciding to do one thing is deciding not to do something else–that the root of the word “decide” is similar to that for suicide.

As a small business, the opportunity costs for even your best decisions are huge: the best gig you’ve got is another customer you didn’t meet.

Proud of our latest decisions, and hope I’m up to owning the consequences.

A screen shot from some custom work we’re doing: construction inspections using GoZync for FileMaker Go with some custom map work in the webviewer.

Just got this great screen shot from Shawn Mayers who has integrated our calendar into his solution.

Nice work! Here is what Shawn had to say about it:

I am working on a solution for a doctors office and one of the features is to have an electronic appointment book. I chose your solution, SeedCode Calendar, to made this request. I was excited about how smoothly the integration worked; so I am sending this email. I have attached a screen shot of what I am working on.

Thank you for developing an awesome product.

Thanks for the screen shot and the kind words, Shawn!