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I'm thinking more about the possibilities of Beyond as a web app. Advantages: You can use it on any computer in the world, basically Storage concerns no longer exist Collaboration becomes much more feasible It's easier to make your data part of the web, if you want Disadvantages: You have to have your own web server[1] The interface ...

Until my laptop died, I hadn't really considered separating the underlying code from the user interface (Cocoa). But now that I can't actually develop the interface until I fix my laptop, I'm forced to see what I can work on until that time. And thus I've realized that ...

I'm starting to seriously consider SQLite for Beyond instead of XML as the base file format. It looks like it'd work a lot better. I'll look into it more thoroughly later on... [tags]SQLite, XML, Ruby[/tags]

On April 1st, MacGenealogy.org ran this announcement: Apple to Launch iRoots, iRoots Pro Genealogy Applications in 2007?. LOL, it's a good read. At first I got kind of excited, but then I realized what day it was posted on and suddenly it all made sense (and the ...

When I first saw the URL for WeRelate, I thought it was We're Late. :) But no, this new site has nothing to do with punctuality. Dan Hanks tipped me off to it, and while at first I wasn't very excited about it (this was a ...

Discovered an excellent new blog by Dan Lawyer, Taking Genealogy to the Common Person. There's been a lot of good discussion on it so far and I expect it to continue with innovative ideas and other things that need to happen to make genealogy the best it can ...

Set aside an hour of time tonight to work on Beyond. I consolidated my ideas into one file and put them into a PDF: Beyond-Brainstorming.pdf. Keep in mind that this is very raw material, mostly unedited. The next step is to decide on the goals I ...

I have too many things on my plate right now, mostly self-imposed. And Beyond is probably my biggest project ever. From Paul Graham's Good and Bad Procrastination essay: Big problems are terrifying. There's an almost physical pain in facing them. It's like having a vacuum cleaner hooked up ...

Over the next week I'll be trying out the various Mac genealogy apps and seeing what's good and what's not. So I downloaded GEDitCOM and just tried it out. Um, can we say unintuitive? First of all, when you start it for the first time, it doesn't ...

This morning in the shower I thought about my grandmother and wondered whether she's been doing any genealogy lately. If she has, then of course I'd want to get a copy of her PAF file. That would then mean merging it with mine, or at least looking at ...