Taking flight


A look back at the first two weeks of selling Syncopation and some thoughts about what is to come.

It's been almost two weeks since my web site went live and Syncopation 1.0 was first available for download. The initial response was great, and a bit overwhelming at the same time. In addition to trying to deal with getting this project off the ground, there's been plenty of work to do at my day job and I had family in town to top it all off. It made for a hectic first few days.

One of the things that I have really enjoyed about this project has been the exchanges I've had with some of the people that have installed and used Syncopation. Its been very exciting and gratifying for me to hear about how this program has helped people or solved a problem for them. It has also been interesting to hear peoples suggestions for what additions or enhancements they would like to see in the program.

Thankfully, things have come back down to normal level of din, giving me a bit of time to get back to doing some coding. I have a few things in the works for the next version of Syncopation. One of the things that has been the most frequently requested is the ability to do Synchronization by playlist. That is definitely something I'm planning to support in the future.

In the near term, though, I plan on doing more of a "maintenance" release of Syncopation, version 1.0.1, which will fix some issues that have come up in the last couple of weeks and add some minor new features that I think would be useful to people. More on this later. I'm mostly done with the coding, but want to do a bit more testing before I release v1.0.1 broadly.

Blogging is also a new thing, this being my first entry, but I wanted to have a way to share information about Syncopation and other issues about Macintosh and software development for the Mac that I thought would be interesting to a wider audience.

Posted: Sat - June 17, 2006 at 09:48 PM          


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