maniacal rage

Garrett Dimon—who has a truly excellent first name, I might add—has been helping me test SimpleLog for many months now and shortly after the release of 2.0 he switched his site over to it and wrote up a fantastic overview of the application. The attention to detail in his thorough post is awe-inspiring and it's a really great look at SimpleLog if you're interested in the application but haven't tried it yet.

Many thanks to Garrett and everyone else who has been sending positive feedback. As always, SimpleLog is an ongoing project and I'm always open to feature requests, feedback and everything else you've got on your mind. You can post your thoughts and interact with other SimpleLog users at the SimpleLog forums, or check out the wiki for more information about using/installing the app.

Working on the podcast the last few weeks has been a really fun experience. Now that we're a few episodes in, we're starting to plan for future guests and topics and we're beginning to hammer out the format. I'm finishing up a new website for the podcast so there will be more than just a subscribe button—hopefully that will be up and running in a day or two. It's not terribly fancy, but it will allow me to post show notes, behind the scenes info, guest bios and the like and allow for direct downloading of episodes (in case you want to download a specific show). The site will also have a simple contact form so you can send us your feedback without having to send an email to podcast at garrettmurray dot net (hint!).

Feedback has been really great so far (if minimal). When I first started playing around with the podcasting idea (about a year ago), I was afraid people wouldn't be interested in myself and others sitting around talking and making jokes, but it seems I was (thankfully) incorrect. With each episode we grow more excited as we gain listeners and hear from them—this show is a hell of a lot of fun to do, and it's even better to know that people are enjoying it. Yesterday, I received some feedback from Tomas Jogin that was too good not to post:

The Garrett Murray Podcast is literally the best podcast ever. Usually, that kind of phrase has a certain tongue in cheek quality to it—not so in this case.

If you're not subscribed to the podcast, subscribe now. We've got a lot of great stuff planned and we want you to be a part of it.