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To make collaboration on the design easier, and as a form of documentation for the project (and mainly because I've wanted to create a wiki for a while now :)), I've created a wiki for Beyond (using MediaWiki). I'm still not sure just how useful it'll be ...

My papers are finally done and so I should have more time from now on. (Finals won't be too hard this semester, thankfully.) So, Saturday afternoon I was decluttering my room, and I discovered all my genealogy research notes from fall 2005, on my Iavicoli ancestors in Chieti, ...

I have class in a few minutes so this'll have to be quick. I'll post more later. The more I think about it, the more offline synchronization seems necessary. Web-only wouldn't cut it. There are situations where you wouldn't have Internet access (or wireless) -- if you're on ...

Sorry for the long lag in posting. And this isn't even a real post, just a short note saying that the end of the semester is approaching rapidly and so things may be on hold until finals are over.

Going along with my ideas over the past few days, particularly that of focusing primarily on making Beyond a web application (though of course the desktop clients will follow, in their own due time), I'm starting to see Beyond in a newer light. I mentioned a little bit about ...

All afternoon and evening the thought of making Beyond primarily web-based has impressed itself upon me. The web is the future of software development. Sure, there'll probably always be desktop apps, but the tide is changing (and has already changed in many ways). E-mail started it (with ...

I've added a new page, What is Beyond?. (The link is in the sidebar on the right.) It's a summary of what Beyond will be, and I'll continue to flesh it out as things continue on.

In the day or so since writing Genealogy Anywhere, my vision has expanded. "Genealogy anywhere" has really caught hold of me, and I've realized that what we need is a Firefox of genealogy, so to speak. Universality has become the new north star of the project. ...

During my text processing class this afternoon I was reading through the phpGedView website, and I came across this question on the about page: "How do you synchronize your data with your relatives when they make changes on their computers?" (It's a question phpGedView tries to answer.) ...

Remember how my laptop died a few days ago and I've been trying to figure out how to push development forward? The answer has arrived: when I got to work today, they told me that we're getting an iMac here in our lab so that I can work on ...