jordanchark.com — An interview with Will Shipley, one of the founders of the hugely successful Omni Group, and now the "Chief Exectutive Monster" of another hugely successful Mac software maker Delicious Monster, developer of the benevolent Delicious Library. Even comment for your chance to win a copy!
May 20, 2007 View in Crawl 4
raynevandunemMay 21, 2007
This is kinda off-topic, but...Mac users, from what I've noticed, get extremely excited about these shrinkwrap applications, as if they're some shiny new boutique gadget that they found on Gizmodo or something.I don't have anything against that, though. I wonder about when a flavor of Desktop Linux will get into the boutique OS market and allow for FOSS developers to enjoy similar fame and fortune. I mean, they (Especially the GNOME/KDE folks) do a decent job already for free; imagine what they could do if they were to produce an app for pay....
roscoe1976May 21, 2007
Will Shipley is an arrogant f**k, he thinks he is gods gift to the Mac. He treats people like crap and it ugly as hell too.
Closed AccountMay 21, 2007
In other words, a typical mac user.
ignavusMay 21, 2007
eh. i have to disagree. DL is a very pretty application that's not particuarly friendly to large collections (slow startup/save times; issues with the ipod sync; and so on). i'm also not keen at all on the tight amazon integration. while it's nice that book information is snagged, do you really need the amazon review stored locally? for $40 for the license i'd like to be able to shut that crap off. (i also think amazon's pretty evil though, so i'm biased.) and where's the native, sensibly done HTML export? the isight integration is nice, but barcode readers are cheap enough that it's more a gimmick than anything else (though i'm sure a fun programming exercise). lastly, it's nearly impossible to scan with one computer (say a laptop) and "upload" to a master DL database. for my money, librarything is a better bet. it's not perfect either, but at least it's online and not festooned with amazon cruft.
imikedamanMay 22, 2007
"Good programmer though... which is what counts."In Delicious Library 1.0 he thought it would be better to compress and uncompress all the DVD images as low-quality JPEGs in real-time... you know, instead of just implementing a basic cache system that stores the DVD covers on the hard drive and loading them in as they're needed. I found this out after asking why the program was so unbelievably slow and used a huge amount of RAM even with only like 100 DVD covers.I *really* hope he fixed that problem by now.