Today I discovered FeedDemon, which went gold today. Before FeedDemon, which I fell in love with after just seeing the screenshots, I was using SharpReader. The funny thing is that it took me a second before I realized where I’d heard the name “Nick Bradbury” before.
It turns out Mr. Bradbury is the guy who created HomeSite (since purchased by Allaire, which was then purchased by Macromedia). Back when I was not a software developer, but more along the line of a website designed (at one time I actually had creativity that still flowed through my veins), I was fiercely in love with my beloved HomeSite 1.0.
I continued to use HomeSite until around the the 4.0 line, at that point I a) stopped writing web pages, and b) stopped enjoying HomeSite (I’m sure Allaire/Macromedia destroyed it, not Nick). HomeSite was the first IDE I used that actually did auto-competition — and this was back in 1997 (maybe even 1996? I can’t recall anymore).
Even today, my favorite IDE for code is IntelliJ IDEA, which has far-and-away the best code competition of any development suite. Clearly Nick was ahead of his time, and FeedDemon just proves once again he’s totally in touch with how to build a functional application combined with an amazing user interface.
Rock on Nick!
Disclaimer: my memories of the years and/or the versions I used may be totally off base. All I know is it has been “eons” since I used HomeSite.
on Dec 26th, 2003 at 2:42 pm
FeedDemon RSS Reader with MT integration feature
RSS Feed Reader with Movable Type integration