SAM

After some pretty regular releases it might seem like there is currently no activity going on with SAM but that isn't true. The activity has been diverted for a bit into a different direction for a little while. Once I started working on generating alerts via email I realized I was really missing the constant feedback that the old GUI based version of SAM showed. I'd been playing around with several desktop technologies for a while and finally decided to go forward with Adobe AIR and so I released AirSAM. You can learn more about AirSAM on it's own project page, but I wanted to let everybody know that despite the lack of releases for a whole six weeks that work on SAM has not stalled. There are still a ton of exciting features that I'd like to add and work will continue.

I realize that Adobe AIR is only available for Mac, Windows and Linux and a more cross platform solution is still needed. I'm constantly looking at ways to convey the information that SAM makes available and I'll be looking at more ways for folks on BSD, Solaris, etc... can use that information. I'm excited by the news that QT is going LGPL so that might be a possibility. And of course the community is welcome to create apps as well. :) So stay tuned. There is much more ahead!