About

Sugar Maple Software was founded in 2006 by . I provide a variety of products and services.

iPhone® Applications

I am currently developing iPhone applications. My first application is uDecide!. uDecide! helps you make decisions or answers questions. Some decisions are rather broad; the answers work for almost any question. There are a wide variety of questions whose answers can be chosen from a list of your friends. Other decisions are more specific.

Consumer Applications for Mac OS X

I am currently developing consumer applications for Mac OS X. My first consumer application is NewsHawker. NewsHawker reads you your news so you can focus on other tasks. NewsHawker extends the functionality of NetNewsWire to speak the news items in NetNewsWire. NewsHawker is configurable. Do you want to read just the headlines of the news items? No problem. Just the bodies? Sure. Read the bodies of some items as their headlines are being read? Certainly. Open certain items in your browser if they sound interesting? Of course.

Consulting

I can help you overcome a variety of software-related challenges. As a consultant, I subscribe to the Manifesto for Agile Software Development:

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
  • Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
  • Working software over comprehensive documentation
  • Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
  • Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

I have extensive experience with Mac OS X driver development (I/O Kit), Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, C++, C, Perl, HTML, CSS, and Agile Software Development Methodologies. Review my experience for more insight into my areas of expertise. If you think I may be able to help you, please .

Ramblings

I write about my experiences as an independent Macintosh developer and Twitter about most anything: @gcschmit.

Press Releases

  • 16 December 2009: uDecide! Now Available on the App Store.
  • 29 March 2007: Sugar Maple Software Releases NewsHawker 1.0, Your Own Personal News Anchor.