The Meadows Design site, meadowsdesign.com, has been updated with a newer look and a moderately thorough client list. Additionally, Andy Meadows — owner of Meadows Design — has posted his resume at meadowsdesign.com/resume-full.html.
Not that anyone is reading this at the moment, but I’m going to try and start updating this regularly. Here’s hoping.
Last week, and this, have been exceptionally busy here at Meadows Design. In the last 10 days I’ve landed 3 new contracts with the possibility of adding two more. These contracts include the addition of two new clients for our web design and hosting services: Canes Crossing and Pine Pointe — both new housing developments in the South East. The other guaranteed contract and the two possible additions are with Thoughtmill, an existing client. All of the Thoughtmill work will be ASP.NET work.
With the addition of the new work, I must personally make some sacrifices. As such, I’ve put the Event Viewer shareware application — my personal project — on hold until I can dedicate the time to it that it deserves. I’ll probably spin back up on it in 6 weeks or so.
I’d love to write a little more but work calls.
I am going to revive some of my older shareware applications and begin work on some new ones. They are as follows:
Add/Remove Programs Cleaner
This program allows you to HIDE entries that would otherwise appear in the Add/Remove Programs control panel applet. This application does not remove them entirely from your computer, nor does it uninstall them. It simply is a tool to clean-up the clutter — you know you want to get rid of all of those Hot Fixes listed there.
This program is being re-released into the wild and it has NO updates. Standard disclaimer about modifying your registry applies, though I’ve personally had no problems with it.
Did I mention it’s free? Download it now.
Event Viewer
Currently under development, this will be a replacement for the TERRIBLE Event Viewer MMC plug-in that’s been in Windows since the NT days. Sorting, searching and filtering of local and network logs will be available in the first version and future versions will allow you to monitor log files and perform diffs across multiple machines.
Windows only, sorry. Oh, and NOT free, but CHEAP.
Expense Tracker
This one is for the Mac people out there. This will be so simple to write, it’s probably gonna be free but I haven’t decided on it yet. Also in the development stages, this application will allow you to track expenses and file them into categories. That’s it. It’s simple and lightweight. Targeted at those who do not use financial management software — or use it on Windows — but want to track their individual expenses for a personal business, project, etc, Expense Tracker will provide a light-weight alternative to all that’s out there.
Client Billing
I was SO excited about this, but I think I’m gonna have to 86 it. This was to be an OS X Cocoa based application that would allow independant contractors to track time that they apply to a particular account on any given day. Recently, I discovered iBiz and while I have some issues with it my time would probably be better spent working with the author than writing my own. I have enough projects as it is. Had to throw this blurb in though incase I change my mind.
LlamaBase
Llama is a secret. I can’t tell you about it… yet.