TermTable Suite project droppedPOSTED SEP 14, 2006

As soon as I took on programming as a hobby in 2003, I began searching for program ideas. A little slow at first, several came to me by the end of that year and I was soon entertaining the idea of making my own "suite" of programs (kinda like MS Office or Adobe). Wake Up! Pro and KeyPrint got off the ground nicely, but time constraints prevented me from getting too far with PlayEmit, MikeMark, and the half-dozen other programs I had on the drawing board. Most were dropped, BreadMeter (originally "Buxx") proved useful in 2004, then took 18 months to go public. CipherDin was re-invented and considerable time went into TermTable, meant to become the new focus of my suite.

With the second job bringing free time into a fresh (albeit short-lived) drought, I came to take another look at my long term goals. I've decided to scale back my on-again-off-again ambitious programming goals.

• Wake Up! Pro has proven itself useful to myself and others. I recieve considerable feedback on WUP and it is the most unique of my programs. I'm keeping plans for v2.5, 2.8, and 3.x alive, only Linux version 2.2 is being dropped. I've decided to hold off on Linux completely, despite my agreement with it's idealogy, because it seems I can't get the OS to work the way I want.
• TermTable will be dropped. MS Outlook and ////////////////// already have powerful scheduling tools.
• BreadMeter will still be supported, although no new versions are planned.
• KeyPrint will still be supported for now. CipherDin, which was to bring KeyPrint's functions to TermTable's schedules, has been dropped.

I'd like to shift my attention to website features, such as the reborn Audio/Video Component Archive, and to DXing... among other things.

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