Cyndicate | Aug 1 2007 |
TAKAAKI This is the developer who threatened a lawsuit again Adam Betts, an icon designer. Read his blog post for the details. http://www.artofadambetts.com/weblog/?p=181
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Cyndicate | Aug 2 2007 |
CYNCIAL PEAK SOFTWARE Please get your facts straight before publicly slandering a company. Adam was never threatened with a lawsuit. There was a falling out over him not finishing the project that he agreed to do. Try using google to get the full story.
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Cyndicate | Aug 2 2007 |
ADAMBETTS@MAC.COM Hi Developer, I was hoping you to be a little more honest about the situation. It was clearly implied that there would be a lawsuit however as it turns out, it was nothing more than an attempt to instill fear. As for the product, Cyndicate is a great app with nice interface and I encourage other people to give it a try.
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Cyndicate | Aug 3 2007 |
MUELLER Another blog post, written by Erik Barzeski, explains his side of the story: http://nslog.com/2007/03/06/adam_betts Erik says that the only mention of a lawyer involved was when he offered Adam a 3rd option: to get a lawyer himself if he wants payment. But that doesn't really fit in with a resolution like the first 2 options, so I wouldn't consider it a third option. In fact, I'm not even sure why Erik would mention that to Adam. If the context was that Adam get a lawyer for _defense_, that wouldn't make sense either, because no one goes and gets an attorney until after they have received notice from the group making the charges. Adam states that he didn't complete the project, using two reasons in different posts: (1) "There is a reason why I cannot continue and I can't tell you why yet....[it has] nothing to do with me doing graphics for any competing products." (2) "this was not a breach of contract but more of 'personally offended.'" So it sounds like a mixture of dealing with relations that were already poor between Erik and Adam, and priority of something else Adam was doing. Overall, it sounds like Adam should have completed the project. And Erik should have handled it more smoothly. I can understand Erik's frustration with the situation, but he sounded pretty harsh in the replies to posted publicly, and even if no law suite was actually threatened, I can understand why Adam would back off even more after communicating with Erik. Erik has since pushed a strong arm decision for MacUpdate to either (1) remove this thread from our site, or (2) remove the Cyndicate product altogether. Obviously, this is starting to snowball and Erik is not making friends by taking such a stance. If I were Brad Miller, the developer of Cyndicate, I might pull the reigns in on this entire situation, before enemies are made all over the place. I say this because I desire good things for Cyndicate.
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Cyndicate | Aug 3 2007 |
IACAS This is Erik, and I asked Joel to remove this commentary entirely because it has nothing to do with the product itself. Joel refused to remove the commentary, as is his right, and so that's done. All things considered, the development of the icon is an incredibly small part of the process, and while true that I could have handled things more smoothly, I did not like being put in the position of having a contract broken. It set us back quite awhile and cost us time and effort to find a new icon designer.
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Cyndicate | Nov 25 2007 |
COMPUTERNAUT Out of curiosity, who is the icon designer that fulfilled the job?
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OnyX | May 20 2007 |
TAKAAKI Quoting the developer: While verification, this is expected!! Have you read the message before the verification? It's also writed in the OnyX Help: During the verification, the Finder may act slow or become unresponsive, the spinning pinwheel may appear, or your computer could appear to stop responding (freeze). It's normal, please Wait! from http://www.macupdate.com/reviews.php?id=11582&pid=170749
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Loudblog | Mar 26 2007 |
TAKAAKI I have no idea why this PHP app claims a universal binary. Other PHP apps like wiki, blog, CMS are not shown with universal badge in the list.
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ImageWell | Feb 14 2007 |
TECHIETECHIE His record of comments shows us that he never gives details of what you like and don't like. Negative reviews need to be well-written in order to support the developers's community. Linking to other apps don't convince people without specific explanations.
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Bookdog | Dec 19 2006 |
TECHIETECHIE I've been trying this app for a while. It's difficult to learn how to use this app. As the screenshot shows GUI is not user-friendly. I don't say Apple's HIG is something developers have to follow. This app's UI is less effective than Apple's guideline. However, I have no issues with functions of this app. Fairly powerful and stable.
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Mactracker | Sep 1 2006 |
TECHIETECHIE This is made with RealBasic. Not Xcode. It'll take some time to port to Xcode or wait for RealBasic to release a version capable of making universal binaries. The latter option is better because, by using Xcode, this app loses cross-platform. The dev needs to prepair for diffrent code bases for diffrent platform. Also, this kind of small app doesn't get much benefit from being universal. Performance isn't an issue for most users.
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FIFA World Cup 2006 Schedule | Jun 11 2006 |
TECHIETECHIE I highly demand this developer pull his products from his website. He has so far successfully *used* DaringFireball to get some attention to this widget. If he feels any apology, the widget shoud be pulled.
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FIFA World Cup 2006 Schedule | Jun 11 2006 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN These are the facts... The only reason this software has been downloaded at all is because it was first listed (publicly released) at apple.com. Shortly after it appeared on apple.com, it was listed here at MacUpdate. As far as I know, only apple.com and MacUpdate have this software listed at present. The developer did use/borrow/steal daringfireball.net's design for his own blog, at first. He has since corrected that.
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FIFA World Cup 2006 Schedule | Jun 11 2006 |
LEONCAHUN come on, guys: let's treat it, in the words of John Gruber, gentlemanly! The dev did just some experiments with DF's css-file, and has since corrected and apologized. I dont think anyone in Macworld can "rip off" John Gruber's DF-layout: that's how signature it is. I can easily imagine how someone setting up a webpage lets it play, just for the fun one of it, DF for half a day. So, please, no bad feelings. Everything is good on our nerdy planet. (and, no, I;m not affiliated with the dev, or somehting; although I'm an avid reader of DF and like it a lot.) Except: I'm wondering if the widget couldnt draw the results of the games and display them?! Would be great.
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iShowU | Jun 6 2006 |
TECHIETECHIE Why not send your detailed report to the developer? Write the details of configurations of your Mac and software settings. The MacUpdate review page isn't right for writing your trouble. Note that this application is still beta, doesn't promise much for its users. Since you decided to be involved in using beta, the developer will be willing to hear you say.
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Parallels Desktop | May 31 2006 |
TAKAAKI That software is still beta. Asking for professional commecial help is not reasonable at this time.
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AppZapper | Mar 6 2006 |
TAKAAKI I had the same problem with yours. I tried to zap AppZapper with AppZapper, but it wasn't successful. Now I'm seriously thinking about puchachacing another copy of this cool application to delete the current one. Is there anyone who tried in this way? Some input is welcome.
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TextMate | Jan 9 2006 |
TAKAAKI Right. TextMate is a code editor. But, some may need 2 byte languages in writing contents, let's say, between h1 tags in HTML. Additionally, some love TextMate because of the complete support for Markdown. (At least, from the author's blog, Allan is a big fan of Markdown.) I write almost everything in Markdown. Here again, I wish to write the contents in 2 byte langauges. One last thing, nowadays, URLs support 2 byte letters. I wish I could reopen my document with BBEdit or SubEthaEdit.
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TextMate | Jan 5 2006 |
TAKAAKI Thanks for your reply again. I do agree that TextMate is very young. Yeah, the problem happens with 2 byte letters such as Japanese. Oh, yes, I'm Japanese... One positive aspect of this issue is that the author mentions and admits this problem and decided to tacle with this issue later on. Much better than ignoring any bugs and limitations.
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TextMate | Jan 5 2006 |
TAKAAKI Thanks for your reply. I did contact the author and read the posting in the mailing list. I do understand that building such a great app is hard work for one guy coder. That was just my 2 cents. I know there more English-only users than other language users. In other words, if he adds international language support, the value of TextMate will spread all over the world. And, he may be able to work more and hire others to make TextMate even better.
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TextMate | Jan 4 2006 |
TAKAAKI As the author admits, international languages like Japanese, Chinese, Korean are not supported. Providing Mac OS X is more powerful than any other platforms in terms of internationalization. It is a cry to see that feature missing. My writing with text editors is almost in English, but I need to type Japanese in comments especially when I work with other fellows. The TextMate manual says that support for other languages is a long term goal because the author thinks that most people type in English only.
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TextMate | Jan 5 2006 |
ZZEN Which, as much as you don't like it, is quite an honest and open explanation, isn't it? It's a single-man developer. He has to make tough decisions on what to implement sooner and what later. And depending on how much requests he gets for new features, he makes priorities. Have you tried contacting alan on IRC? He's very aproachable. And he needs feedback in order to make correct priorities...
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TextMate | Jan 5 2006 |
TAKAAKI Thanks for your reply. I did contact the author and read the posting in the mailing list. I do understand that building such a great app is hard work for one guy coder. That was just my 2 cents. I know there more English-only users than other language users. In other words, if he adds international language support, the value of TextMate will spread all over the world. And, he may be able to work more and hire others to make TextMate even better.
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TextMate | Jan 5 2006 |
ZZEN Cool, great. Keep in mind, this application is VERY young (compared to BBEdit for example) and I'm sure the intl text support will be done, just not sure when. :) BTW - it is possible to enter most of the languages as of now - for example, my Czech language, with an extended ISO-Latin-2 set, is fully supported by TextMate. I guess it's only multi-byte-character languages that pose a problem at text input, right? Otherwise, the TextMate support for saving/reading Unicode files works great for me.
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TextMate | Jan 5 2006 |
TAKAAKI Thanks for your reply again. I do agree that TextMate is very young. Yeah, the problem happens with 2 byte letters such as Japanese. Oh, yes, I'm Japanese... One positive aspect of this issue is that the author mentions and admits this problem and decided to tacle with this issue later on. Much better than ignoring any bugs and limitations.
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TextMate | Jan 6 2006 |
ENDIAN textmate is a code editor. how many people code in 2 byte languages?
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TextMate | Jan 9 2006 |
TAKAAKI Right. TextMate is a code editor. But, some may need 2 byte languages in writing contents, let's say, between h1 tags in HTML. Additionally, some love TextMate because of the complete support for Markdown. (At least, from the author's blog, Allan is a big fan of Markdown.) I write almost everything in Markdown. Here again, I wish to write the contents in 2 byte langauges. One last thing, nowadays, URLs support 2 byte letters. I wish I could reopen my document with BBEdit or SubEthaEdit.
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