I've been coding away on version 2.0 of
Earth Bridge. I've gotten some really great (and
fast) help over at
Stack Overflow.
Having been subscribed to many usability blogs for the past several years is definitely paying off. I will reserve judgment on whether the interface I'm creating is "good" or not until other people have seen it, but I definitely like it much better than the old interface.
Regarding the interface, this is an especially tough application to create. First off, I'm not a UI designer. I'm a developer. (If you don't know why that's a problem,
go read this.) What is trying to get out of my head is
something like this. It's taking all my effort to prevent that kind of atrocity from happening. Unfortunately, the nature of this application is such that it only actually does
one thing. However, there are about 200 ways of configuring
how it does that one thing. So when it comes down to it, the whole UI of the application is just a glorified interface to a config file. So I really mean it when I say it's tough to create the interface. I'm doing my darnedest to keep from unleashing a UI atrocity on the users.