2007-07-02: cattaDoc 3.1
A new version 3.1 of cattaDoc is released.
See what is new in version 3.1.
Download the new version 3.1.

2006-06-01: Maaloe Consulting created
I have created the independent IT management consulting company Maaloe Consulting, working as part of ChangeGroup.

2006-04-03: cattaDoc 3.0
A new version 3.0 of cattaDoc is released.
Read what is new in version 3.0.
Download the new version 3.0.

2004-12-31: Back from Madagascar
I am back from a Christmas holiday in Madagascar.
I didn't see any catta lemurs this time, but a few other species. The catta lemur has been extinct in the western region around Tulear (Toliara), one of the places I saw them 20 years ago.
And sadly enough, all the rain forest on the 100 km stretch from Moramanga to Brickaville between Antananarivo and Tamatave (Toamasina) has also been wiped out because of the local population's feu de brousse as it is called in French, the slash-and-burn technique used to clear land for agriculture. Before: Thick, impenetrable forest. Today: Open hills with some fields and scattered trees.
The Asian tsunami also hit Madagascar last Sunday. According to the local press, some thousands villagers on the southern part of the east coast lost their homes, but nobody was killed apparently.

2004-09-20: cattaDoc with advanced security
A new version 2.0 of cattaDoc with advanced security is released. With advanced security, each object in cattaDoc has an Access Control List (ACL) specifying permissions for that particular object. Read more about the concepts in advanced security and how advanced security manifests itself in practice.

Esther Dyson on "spreadsheets for processes":
In her recent newsletter, Release 1.0, Esther Dyson writes about evolving, new types of software under the headline Meta-mail: A Medium for Meaning.
"Meta-mail", because the most obvious point of departure is the ever overflowing e-mail inbox.
But the focus is on getting control of business processes, not business data. The last thing is taken care of by e.g. spreadsheets. But where is VisiProcess, she asks, with a reference to VisiCalc, the first successful spreadsheet?
Interesting to read about issues also on focus in cattaDoc, the management of business and document processes. Unfortunately, only an abstract of her newsletter is publicly available.
However, you can listen to her views in a video on ZDNet where she makes references to Lotus Agenda and more recent applications addressing the issues of getting control of business processes.
There is also on ZDNet an excerpt from her Release 1.0 newsletter with the title Resilient: Making processes into objects.