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jakew

111 karma · joined December 8, 2014

Since 2002, I have focused on building robust and scalable enterprise applications, cloud-based services, parallel computing, and in the analyses of large-scale data-sets. I have a vast range of development experience, spanning desktop, web, and mobile application development environments.

In my early career, I worked at a publicly-funded research center developing fiscal systems. I later joined Oracle, developing a component of their enterprise product suite. I subsequently worked with Thomson Reuters, where I was in charge of a component of a high-concurrency real-time trading system.

In last 8 years, I have worked with start-ups and developed a raft of innovative software products, across a range of industries including biotech big-data analytics, music video service delivery, IP (intellectual property) data analytics, and large-scale digital content management systems.

Now I'm working on Document Node: https://documentnode.io

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jakew··on Show HN: Refactor Your Markdown in a Mind Map
The Mind Map view gives you a different perspective to inspect the logical structure of your document. It boosts your productivity by providing a simple and intuitive user interface.

Any feedback will be appreciated.

jakew··on Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
That's a very interesting idea. Something worth having a research. I've taken notes for it. Thanks.
jakew··on Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
I haven't evaluated how important is that for daily uses. :) I saw there was a discussion in CommonMark's forum.
jakew··on Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
Thanks for letting us know you think it's cool. :)

The GUI library is QT. But not ordinary Qt, we did lots of customization. A large amount of time invested in polishing it.

jakew··on Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
Thanks for letting us know about the issue. Was your document in a different encoding rather than UTF-8? We will find it out and fix it shortly.
jakew··on Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
Thanks for your comment. It totally makes sense.

Sometimes, it is the art of balance. As a product, the goal is to save users time as much as possible. Eventually, the users have to decide whether it's appropriate to put a super complex table in Markdown, although it will be fine for tables with short rows.

While I'm writing this reply, I thought of how to improve this in Document Node. It can automatically check and add padding depending on whether any Markdown rows exceed 80 characters (or similar). One less thing to worry about.

jakew··on Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
I have thought about this. Padding works when the text in a cell is not too long. When cell texts are arbitrary long, "padding" doesn't make sense any more.

Document Node is not just a pure Markdown editor, it has a beautiful HTML5 preview area, where you can see your tables in a perfect format. You can define your own styles using CSS, although we have 11 preview styles built-in.

Having said that, I think it's a good idea to give the users the option to enable padding. I will add that option in a later version.

There never be a final product for us and stop there, we will keep improving it and roll new versions frequently.

jakew··on Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
I will add simple functions in the next version. Specifically in two or three weeks. I promise.
jakew··on Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
Not sure about the notes format of Joplin. If it's Markdown files, then yes, you can open any Markdown folders in Document Node.

However, many users are using Document Node for notes taking, as it provides the most flexible way to arrange your content simply in folders.

jakew··on Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
That looks cool. But if you want to have only one application to do the job, there is another option.
jakew··on Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
@fortylove That's a really good idea. I'm going to add simple math in the table editor.
jakew··on Thank HN: I'm taking a year off HN
Good luck and happy birthday!