Netnewswire sync software#
Netnewswire sync code#

Unfortunately that was on a company blog that has since been retired.Īs NewsGator pivoted to a more Enterprise focus it was decided to shutdown the RSS sync system.

Netnewswire sync code#

It was around this time that I wrote a series of blog posts about user experience and how I had improved NewsGator Inbox (its new name by then) based on all the wonderful discussions NickB, Brent and I had and code I had actually shipped. I was completely concentrated on RSS for Outlook, but NickB, Brent and myself often tossed ideas off of each other for improving user experience. Affectionately called “The Nicks” for sometime since no one at NewsGator had a Mac nor really cared about Mac development. I was part of the new team of RSS client devs – Nick, Nick and Brent. I believe it was about 1 month for NickB to join, then 5-6 months after I had started that Brent actually came onboard. I’m not sure if it was before or after that day when Gordon and I were in Redmond, WA with Gordon trying to pitch Dare Obasanjo ( RSS Bandit creator) on it, but I was there and knew the pitch. I knew that NewsGator was actively pushing the new sync platform to current RSS reader developers. My co-worker Gordon Weakliem recognized him as Brent Simmons, the creator of NetNewsWire. We all just wrote software.įurther down my timeline at NewsGator, we had a guest in the office.

It was cool, though I didn’t make much of it.

Netnewswire sync software#

It was the first time I met someone who single handily wrote software I used. I had spent a year at my old job using TopStyle so I did know his name. Nick, of course, had written FeedDemon which I had never heard of at the time. My second week at NewsGator I went to lunch with Greg Reinacker, Lane Mohler and Nick Bradbury. Writing the very first app to sync with the new backend platform was an incredible challenge. Reading blog posts in NewsGator “Outlook Edition” or on the NewsGator “Web Edition” and having their read states sync was cutting edge to me.

It was 2005 and I was just learning about blogs and this new medium of RSS. My job was to take over development of it as the company moved to a backend sync system that kept everything you read in sync. When I started at NewsGator there was one client side RSS feed reader in house called NewsGator “Outlook Edition”.