Links for 2009-07-01 [del.icio.us]

• Hammock Builds Social Network for SNAP Conference | FolioMag.com
  It's great to see Folio: Magazine publishing the kind of story I'm sure its audience can't get enough of -- a case study about a recent Hammock project. (Filed under: Shameless linkage to article quoting me.)

links for 2009-07-01

• Hammock Builds Social Network for SNAP Conference | FolioMag.com
  It's great to see Folio: Magazine publishing the kind of story I'm sure its audience can't get enough of — a case study about a recent Hammock project. (Filed under: Shameless linkage to article quoting me.)
  (tags: magazines hammock publising)

Nick Bradbury says goodbye to the old Homesite.

Nick Bradbury
(credit: Will Pate)

My friend, Nick Bradbury, writes about the discontinuation of HomeSite, an HTML editing software he developed before most people ever heard of HTML. He created the software in 1995 and sold it in 1997, so it has been a while since he’s been involved with the product. (After a few sales and corporate consolidations, the software ended up at Adobe.) Nonetheless, the announcement by Adobe provided Nick with the opportunity to reflect on the early days of the software’s development and how he depended greatly on the users of the product to shape it — something else he helped pioneer.

I especially like this quote:

“Sometimes in this blog I’ve made disparaging remarks about HomeSite, but that’s not because I disliked it. It’s just that it’s hard to look at something you created so long ago without seeing all the mistakes that you’ve learned not to make since then. I’m actually very proud of HomeSite, and very thankful that it enabled me to quit my job and work at home. And, funny enough, HomeSite is also what paid for the home I’m living in now.

I’ve never used HomeSite. Heck, I’ve never even used Windows. But I’m grateful for the software. Why? Because when Nick quit his job and started working at home, he decided that home would be in Nashville — making him the Jack White of web software developers.

Links for 2009-06-30 [del.icio.us]

• Seth says Malcolm is wrong, Chris is right | Seth Godin
  In the Free vs. Paid debate, Seth is clearly on the Free side.

links for 2009-06-30

• Seth says Malcolm is wrong, Chris is right | Seth Godin
  In the Free vs. Paid debate, Seth is clearly on the Free side.
  (tags: magazines)