An app for the Apple iPad for taking notes by writing directly on the screen with your finger.

An app for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch that makes it easy for you to quickly write down names, phone numbers, addresses, shopping lists, notes, and more, by writing directly on the screen with your finger.

The wikiCalc program is a web authoring tool for pages that include data that is more than just unformatted prose. It combines some of the ease of authoring and multi-person editing of a wiki with the familiar visual formatting and data organizing metaphor of a spreadsheet. It can be easily set up to publish to basic web server space accessed by FTP and there is no need to set up server-side programs like CGI, though it may also be run as a CGI-script if desired.

A Dan Bricklin's® Video This product is a 42 minute training video with Dan Bricklin explaining some of the basics of copyright law and software licensing, with a special emphasis on open source software. It also covers working with corporate legal departments. The target audience consists of software developers and others involved with the development process. See the product's page (linked above) for more information.

The Software Garden ListGarden™ program is a tool for creating and maintaining RSS feeds. Written in Perl, it is an easy to use open source authoring tool operated with a browser interface that can run locally on a computer running Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux, or accessed remotely through a web server. The version for Windows is a single executable file that includes a Perl runtime. The product is available as Open Source software under the GNU GPL license for no charge.

The Software Garden Shiva Signup program is a server-based program to facilitate keeping track of group member sign ups for attendance at events, providing food, etc. It is very general purpose. Written in Perl, it comes with complete source code but is designed to be easily customized by users without needing to know Perl. The product is available as Open Source software under the GNU GPL license for no charge.

The Software Garden Servertest program lets you monitor how a web server responds to requests for web pages over a long period time. It sends periodic HTTP GET requests to one or more URLs in order to get an indication of the average response time and pattern of timeouts for each. The results of each poll are displayed on the screen and optionally logged to a file.

Servertest is useful for owners of websites running on shared or dedicated servers (either remote or local). Written in Perl, it comes with complete source code to ease customization but you do not need to know Perl to use it. The version for Windows includes a Perl runtime.

The product is free for non-commercial use. Commercial use requires payment of a $10.00 fee. (There is a free 30-day Evaluation Period.) For details, please see the licenses in the Legal section of this web site.

SRCSVC is a program for implementing a server-based service to view the source HTML code of a web page using a browser. It is a Perl program that runs as a CGI script on a web server. It is usually invoked using a bookmarklet while viewing a web page. The returned HTML will be a page that shows the source HTML that makes up the original page. The effect is similar to using "View / Source" or "View / Page Source" in a browser, with some nice additions. This Software Garden® product is currently unchanged since it was released in 2002.

SRCSVC is useful to HTML developers who have access to a simple web server (local or remote) to run it.

SRCSVC is free subject to a license. For details, please see the licenses in the Legal section of this web site.

This is a CDROM containing a copy of the SRCSVC HTML listing program, with a printed copy of the documentation and a label signed by Dan Bricklin. It is available for purchase using PayPal for $29.95. This Software Garden® product is currently unchanged since it was released in 2002.

This is a simple program for choosing numbers for awarding door prizes or similar situations. It was created by Dan Bricklin for use at his graduate school's 25th reunion at a party. It is operated in a manner similar to ListGarden 1.x. It is written in Perl and runs with a local server so that an Internet connection was not needed. It is available in both plain Perl or bundled as a Windows .exe. It is released under the GNU GPL license and has no support. If you are familiar with ListGarden 1.x it will hopefully be self-explanatory. It uses four input numbers that are related to the Harvard Business School class of 1979 to "seed" the random number generator. It is a "quick and dirty" program, and released here because I thought it was the right thing to do. The program has no relation to HBS, is not endorsed by it, etc.

The source code to the plain Perl version is available here in a ZIP file, and the Windows .exe is here.

This is a program for running a series of tests on a browser. It was designed for quick testing of the JavaScript and other parts of mobile browsers and as a framework for adding additional tests.

These two products, originally created by Software Garden and distributed by Lifeboat Publishing/Programmers Paradise, are unfortunately no longer being sold.

Software Garden also provides consulting services in product design, corporate strategy, and technological innovation. You can have Dan Bricklin participate in a brainstorming session, product or strategy critique, or create prototype products from scratch. Contact us for more information.