Safe from the Losing Fight

I went through all the sample code projects on this blog and moved them to Mercurial repositories on my BitBucket account. I did this so the code would be searchable and so I can accept pull requests on them. A lot of the old projects won’t compile with recent versions of Xcode, and most don’t have iOS ports. This gives me the option of accepting patches that add those kinds of improvements.

I regretfully announce that most of Fortunate Bear’s products have been discontinued and support ended effective immediately. Specifically the products terminated are Illuminate, Skyscraper, Pagesmith, and Log Leech. When I acquired these products I had big plans for all of them, which suffice to say didn’t work out. I will spare you the details, but in broad strokes I was unable to make them financially viable.

My company, Fortunate Bear, has now switched to being primarily focused on providing software development services for Mac and iOS.

However, two products did survive the layoff: Black Maria and Newsline Pro. They did so because I still use them daily. Although I plan to improve them, I consider them side projects and will prioritize them accordingly.

I would like thank the customers of Illuminate, Skyscraper, Pagesmith, and Log Leech for their support. I am sorry that things didn’t work out better.

I am now available for doing Mac and iOS contracting through my company, Fortunate Bear. Email me at andy at fortunatebear if you’re interested.