Restrictive Creativity

Work on my ‘Interactive Outliner’ system is coming along extremely well. I’ve run into a few hurdles here and there, but I’ve gotten through them by focusing on a few key ideas:

This is 1.0 – There are features that I want to put in, parts of the system that I want to redesign, more long [...]

IOML – Interactive Outline Markup Language

The format I have been working with now has its official name: Interactive Outline Markup Language. IOML.
The IOML format is an evolutionary step from OPML with some of the structure changed to make using outlines, uh, interactive.
IOML is used to communicate with an Interactive Outline Server. The server I am working on is called CoffeeTalk. [...]

Instant Outlining

I had no idea that Instant Outlining has been around since at least April of 2002. Dave and the team at Userland shipped a version in Radio 8 back then. As always, Dave was ahead of his time.
I first encountered Instant Outlining in August of 2005 when Dave added it to the OPML Editor. I [...]

Twisted vs. Asyncore

I’ve spent the last couple of days digging into Twisted to try and figure out if it is worth the hassle to tear out the networking code for CoffeeTalk, my Instant Outlining Server. Turns out that Twisted is waaaaay too much for what I need. Asyncore will be just fine, now that I pulled my [...]

The site that was…

Way back on April 1st of 2003, 4 long years ago, we started a site called NowStream.com. The idea was simple: Allow people to broadcast live events from anywhere to anyone. We had a few broadcasters setup here in Las Vegas and a few others scattered across the country. Version 1.0 was decent, but it [...]

Testing the waters and deciding to jump in head first…

I’ve been given the chance of a lifetime: Take an extended sabbatical from work and spend my time working on a new project all by myself. No distractions from actual work. No one to answer to but myself for the foreseeable future. And I still get paid! What a deal…
I’ll be taking this time to [...]