I had been thinking along the web way, but this paper suggests another approach more suited to the semantic web. Interesting insight.

SyncLink.html

<nop>MegaWiki seems to be the Palm equivalent of PlannerMode, except with better stylus interface. It seems to be free and open source software, too!

Time to borrow a Palm...

FreewarePalm: MegaWiki v5.4

Shopwise Araneta Center Cubao will be opening on May 5 with about 40 GNU/Linux-based POS units. Congratulations, Jijo!

I tipped him off about packages:fai after he described his project to me. Glad he found it really useful. =)

Chat on localhost%23bitlbee

This is almost exactly what I do with planner. I try to keep commits as small and self-contained as possible. Not only does it make it easier to roll back (although I still have to figure out how to mark certain changesets as do-not-use, aside from deleting them from the revision library), but it also makes it possible for people to cherry-pick changes.

This works to my advantage as well, as other people are encouraged to make their patches nice and small. I still have to hand-tweak some changes. For example, Gary Vaughan uses a different tree structure. However, I can review the patch logs and merge the changes in manually.

java.net: Keep Changes Small: A Happy Jack Story %5BApr. 27, 2004%5D

If they mailed you responses, they'd effectively kill the community. C'mon, are you going to keep checking back there? I wouldn't. Good point. Very very true.

Joel on Software - Building Communities with Software

I think I should show this table to my class to give them an idea of their career path and the growth required.

Joel on Software - How do You Compensate Programmers?

Yeah, I think I should just scrub the CoursesSubmission system instead of rewriting it (as I'm so tempted to do).

Joel on Software - Rub a dub dub

Link from TerryP's blog

I think this is why I have so much fun working on PlannerMode. I have a clearly-defined set of users in mind (mostly the mailing list) and I love threshing out interfaces and features with them. It's not a large-scale application and it certainly doesn't appeal to the masses, but it can be quite powerful when you get the hang of it.

Hey, Emacs is like that too. =)

Open source supports situated software very well, as you can tweak something existing in order to fit your needs.

By the way, the author taught a class called Social Software.

Must forward to Dr. Rodrigo. This is her kind of thing.

Shirky: Situated Software