Everything at Hog Bay Software.

I've been working full time on Hog Bay Software since 2003. Before that I worked on it in the evenings and weekends, since around 2001.

The first real one was a 286 that we got when I was in 8th grade. In high school I helped write a grant (well I don't think I wrote anything, but I acted as an excited student) to get the schools first Mac. I was mostly interested in graphics design then... did a little programming in Macromedia director, but didn't really learn programming until college.

Mac only.

I spend 90% of my time in Xcode and Safari. My favorite third party app is DeskShade... my desk is a mess, but I like to pretend that it's not.

I've also found it very useful to try to write a tagline and an elevator pitch for any project. That's before I start coding. For example with TaskPaper my pitch is:

"For Mac users who want an easier way to make lists and stay organized. TaskPaper is a simple to-do list that's surprisingly adept. Unlike today's complex organizers, TaskPaper lets you focus on getting things done."

It might sounds a little cheesy, but the goal isn't to turn yourself into a salesman, instead the goal is to get your project focused. If you can't describe your project in terms of an elevator pitch then it's probably not focused enough.

I wrote Piccolo, a Java framework for zooming user interfaces (ZUI's) http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/piccolo/. It was pretty cool, though it's showing its age a bit now. Right now my coolest app is TaskPaper. It looks really simple, but I think its basic metaphor is quite powerful and will serve as the base for my future projects. Plain text data, with parsed out structure at runtime.