Stumbled across Pledgie.com and setup a donation campaign for Substruct this evening.

Fund us and help to speed development of your favorite e-commerce platform!

One of my favorite toys is the Nintendo DS.

The abundance of side scrolling, pixel-based video games on the system initially attracted me to the platform, which I’m a complete sucker for.

A few days ago someone put me up on Colors, which is a digital sketching / painting program for the DS.

To use Colors, it seems you have to have a homebrew capable card loader. Tonight I ordered a DSTT, as this Wired article on Colors mentions.

Can’t wait to install colors, and NitroTracker, and this scratching program.

Maybe I’ll have some fun things to share with you all soon.

Just spent the better part of the last two days working on this update to the Cashboard feature tour.

The old tour was long in the tooth, and did a horrible job of communicating why Cashboard is better than the myriad of invoicing software apps out there.

I’d imagine this new tour will spike registrations, and spark a renewed interest in the program.

Time will tell…

I’m sick of Typo. I can’t even leave a comment on my own blog with Safari.

Going to try to transition to the newest build of Mephisto tomorrow soon. Expect weirdness.

As most of you know, we released a product last year, Cashboard, which handles time tracking, invoicing, and project quotes (or estimates).

Since the release I’ve refined the product based on my own needs and the multitude of feedback I’ve received via email, forums, and comments strewn across blogs all over the web.

Cashboard is my baby. I pour my blood, sweat, and redbull into it each and every day. Working on something so hard and so often, one starts to develop a relationship with the work…an attachment.

I also handle the majority of customer support and potential customer emails. It’s great because I get to keep my finger on the pulse of what needs attention. However, the downside comes in the form of insane rants, negative comments, and downright outlandish demands a few people make.

Some days it takes all my restraint not to fire off an email that looks more like the lyrics to a gangsta rap track than a customer support response. I’ve slipped a couple of times, but I’m getting better at sleeping on things. It’s a crucial skill.

I try not to take jabs against my baby as a personal attack, but it’s hard. Yet another skill I’m still trying to master.

Of course, a lot of these comments are valid, once you strip away the venom and bile. Being able to sift through the garbage and determine the meaning has paid off multiple times now in the form of design updates, and changes to Cashboard.

So next time someone bashes something you’ve done, instead of immediately lashing out – sleep on it and take it in stride. Discard the way the comment was delivered, and get to the real meaning.

Who knows, there might even be some value in it.

Just dropped a redesign on subimage.com after four years of stagnation.

It was time for a change.

Substruct v1.0.a3 was just tagged and bagged.

Lots of bugfixes and a mostly working test harness. Next step, fully working tests :)

Go to the home page to download, or get your fix directly from here.

I’ve been trying to justify the price of a JazzMutant Lemur or Dexter for quite awhile, but these pictures just make it harder to hold off.

Both are multi-touch control surfaces.

The Lemur comes with its own programming software which allows you to create your own interface for whatever audio software you run – while the Dexter comes pre-programmed for most digital audio workstations like Cubase.

I love to see designers breaking the norm and bringing the future to us today.

Before computers, people made logos by hand. Imagine that.

Lots of interesting work over here on this flickr set.

The logos are from a mid-70’s edition of the book World of Logotypes.