http://brainmurmurs.com/blog Guerrilla computing in the mountains of Seattle Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:05:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Systems were down intermittently during a routine upgrade of the Mentat servers and their associated power subsystem.  There are no further outages expected at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2009/11/12/mentat-hardware-update/ Our network performance continued to degrade well into the weekend, and we eventually traced the issues to our router. After a herculean struggle, I believe that we finally have a stable, fast network topology for Mentat. We apologize for any inconvenience that this might have caused. At ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/12/13/mentat-network-update/ We've are migrating the Mentat service to a very high bandwidth service provider and will very likely experience periodic outages for the next few hours. Service interruption should not continue after this evening. -Daniel http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/11/01/mentat-infrastructure-updates-continue/ As a result of the availability of numerous BlackBerry devices supporting Bluetooth dialup networking, Pulse has been obsolete for over a year. As a result, Pulse is no longer available for sale as of 10/16/2008. The gateway will still be available as long as Austin Web Development is willing to provide ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/10/16/announcement-pulse-end-of-life/ The Mentat website will be down later this month while we migrate to a new IT infrastructure. We have spent most of this month working on a new, highly scalable architecture for the site and are excited with the performance gains we are seeing! We will provide 24 hours notice ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/10/16/upcoming-maintenance-at-gomentatcom/ The Mentat web service has been updated to include contexts, subprojects, and data export.   Coinciding with this, Black Pixel Luminance has announced Aria Touch, a native iPhone application that supports both Mentat and FogBugz.   http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/07/10/mentat-site-update/ The past couple of days I've been working on adding "contexts" to Mentat. This key component to the GTD methodology was a major feature request so it was first on our list of things to add to the Mentat system. Contexts in Mentat will work like this - Although you have ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/05/22/first-waves-of-contexts/ We're moving back towards a focus on updating the Mentat website now that we've got a few mobile/desktop Mentat-empowered clients under our belt (Mentat Blackberry, Aria, Arioso). Today we compiled a list of feature requests and began prioritizing what we felt was most dire in building out and improving ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/05/19/under-development/ We have been spending some time working on general performance improvements in Mentat. You should be able to see the fruits of our labors immediately. Both the Agenda page and the Projects page have received some love. The loading times have been drastically improved, and we should no longer ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/04/11/mentat-performance-wins/ There has been a lot of bitching about the terms under which developers can sell their iPhone applications through the App Store. I would like to share my opinions on the matter, coming from the perspective of a developer with experience bringing multiple commercial products to the handheld market. Sales channels ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/03/17/editorial-app-store-terms-of-service/