Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: Here’s What You Should Think

  • It’s Just “wired magazine” Now

    Effective with this sentence, I, Chris Finke, will no longer capitalize the “W” and “M” in wired magazine. At the same time, Wired News becomes wired news. Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words. Actually, there never was. True believers are fond of capitalizing words,…

  • Common Sense and Logic for President in 2020

    In case I forget, here’s my platform for when I run for President in 2020: The metric system: we should use it. All measurements must be have metric equivalents listed by the end of my first term. The U.S. will be metric-only by the end of my second term. College textbook prices: they’re ridiculous. A…

  • Hi Christina

    Hi Christina, I love you!

  • Sorry Ladies, but I’m Off the Market

    Yes, it’s true. Yesterday, July 8, I proposed to Christina Tewes, and she said yes, making it the happiest day of my life.

  • 574 and Rising

    anyInventory is still on the front page of SourceForge, and the Google tally for anyInventory results is up to 574. Again, most of these are SourceForge newsfeeds, but here’s a link that was independently added: Chris’s Thoughts on anyInventory.

  • Results – They Keep Going, and Going, and Going…

    A couple days ago when I started keeping track of how many results Google returned for “anyinventory”, the total stood at 99. Today, 4 days later, we’re up to 420. This is mostly due to the announcement of 1.7.1 being posted to the front page of SourceForge, but there’s a couple sites linking independently. No…

  • anyInventory 1.7.1 – Better than Ever

    I released version 1.7.1 of anyInventory, a Web-based inventory system, today. To date, this is the release with the largest percentage of user-requested features added, so it should definitely be more usable than when I came up with my own features and stuck them in (although built-in password protection certainly is useful’) Also, as a…

  • anyInventory – It Just Keeps Getting Better

    anyInventory 1.7 was released today; this release is by far the best one yet. It has a brand new layout, built-in password protection of the administration directory, thumbnailing of remote images, and multiple-category alerts. I’m finally satisfied with how it looks and how stable it is; now the focus will be on digging out those…

  • anyInventory News

    Some various news about anyInventory, an open source inventory application I’ve been working on: Version 1.5 was released today, with the addition of some of the label features promised in the documentation. Bug fixes are in there too, as always. A new developer has joined anyInventory: Drew Hearle. Drew’s post on Slashdot was the inspiration…

  • anyInventory – Rising through the ranks

    anyInventory, an open source inventory system that I’m working on is progressing nicely. It was ranked in the 99.21 percentile for activity in SourceForge the other day, and version 1.4 was released to rave reviews (well, my own rave reviews, but that still counts). Some issues with invalid zip files were resolved by offering a…

  • From 1.0 to 1.1 in 48 hours

    An upgrade to anyInventory has been released. The ability to limit your search to a category and its subcategories was added, and lots of comments were added to the code for those interested in developing. You can download anyInventory here.

  • anyInventory 1.0

    The inventory system I wrote about in my last post has come to some fruition: anyInventory 1.0 has been released. It’s only been in development for a week, but it’s got some nice features. You can play around with a test version here: http://anyinventory.sf.net/aI/

  • anyInventory: Clever Tagline Here

    I’ve been working on a Web-based inventory application called anyInventory for the last week or so that was inspired by this Slashdot thread. It has gotten to the point where I could release version 0.1 (or whatever). If you’d like to help test it out or would be willing to read through the help and…

  • Ja, Das Ist Gut

    Toby is no longer supported. I recommend using RoundCube Webmail instead. Toby Web Mail 0.5.1 was released today with fresh, Germanic goodness. Sven Kierdorf contributed a German translation, which is the only difference between this release and 0.5. Gesundheit!

  • Toby 0.5: Halfway to 1.0!

    This release features one major improvement and one major featurea addition: the improvement is that support has been added for multipart messages that contain multipart sections within a section (commonly generated by Outlook for forwarded messages); the feature is the addition of thread arcs and thread navigation for e-mail conversations. You can read more about…

  • New Toby: 0.4.2

    Toby is no longer supported. I recommend using RoundCube Webmail instead. Yesterday, Toby Web Mail 0.4.2 was released. Improvements in this version are mostly centered on the upgrade and install scripts. Also, a big fix to the email_message class — data was being lost from e-mails due to incorrect parsing. That has been fixed, so…

  • You’re Free, You’re Free!

    Toby is no longer supported. I recommend using RoundCube Webmail instead. I’ve released another Toby version, 0.4.1 this time. What changes have I made? Well, I’ll tell you what changes I’ve made: improved HTML message support, improved multipart message support, interface improvements (including section headers and collapsable sections) and a whole lotta extra love. Doesn’t…

  • Toby 0.4 in the Works

    Toby is no longer supported. I recommend using RoundCube Webmail instead. Toby Web Mail 0.4 is in the works. Changes include language customization (currently only available for English and Spanish — if you want to help out by translating a language file, e-mail chris@efinke.com), better install and upgrade scripts, and a completely re-written message handling…

  • Toby 0.3.1 Released

    Toby is no longer supported. I recommend using RoundCube Webmail instead. Toby Web Mail version 0.3.1 has been released. Mostly bug fixes, but a new feature has been added: messages from people listed in your address book now appear highlighted in your inbox.

  • Toby Web Mail 0.3 Released

    Toby is no longer supported. I recommend using RoundCube Webmail instead. Toby Web Mail 0.3 has been released, and the Toby home page has been given a complete overhaul. I’m in the process of documenting all of Toby for that site. If you’d like to help, e-mail chris@efinke.com.

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