BenCrowder.net

This site is pretty much in long-term hibernation. There's a remote chance I may come back to it someday, but for the foreseeable future, I won't be doing anything with it. (But I'll leave it up since I think there's some value in some of the older posts -- ideas ...

A friend of mine has a client who's interested in paying a programmer to put together a genealogy website ala Beyond (as described in these blog posts). I'm too busy with other projects, however, and so I thought I'd cast out the net and see if any of y'all ...

One of my friends mentioned today that she'd like a Google Docs for genealogy -- you know, like a spreadsheet or a document but instead it would be a pedigree. And I thought of Beyond. And I thought, "Gee, I wish I had time and energy to do ...

I just got an e-mail about how Geni now has what they call family friends. "Make Geni your all-inclusive network for staying in touch with all the people you care about," they say. That's great, I ...

I'm back! :) I've switched over to using a wiki for my productivity needs (to-do lists, research notes, etc.), and I'm more and more convinced that it's perfect for genealogy research. It's freeform, laughably easy to store, and the hyperlinks make it a piece of cake to stitch things ...

Graduation is next month. Beyond is on the back burner. I'm hoping that after I graduate I'll have time (and energy and desire) to make something happen. I'm getting rather burned out with programming, though, so there's no guarantee. Anyway, I'm alive. The end. :)

Back in November I mentioned my idea for a lightweight record manager, and here's a mockup of what I think it'll look like: It'll be very, very simple. Basically, there'll be a small set of metadata for each person (the name, gender, ...

I wasn't able to make it to the LDS tech talk session a few weeks ago, but Dan Hanks recently blogged about it, and I really wish I'd gone. The church is also now in the design stages of a new open-source personal record manager that will interface with the ...

Nothing new to report, other than that school and other endeavors are keeping me busy. I'm still itching at the bit to write a simple web app that will help me keep track of my research, though. I've already created most of it in my head, watching the ...

A couple of weeks ago I came across Family Wheel, Buck DeFore's ActionScript-based genealogy app: You can read more about it on the project page. Quite an interesting visualization technique (meaning, as the main "pedigree" of the app; circle charts have ...