Somebody said that software is never finished, it just stops being developed. There’s still much to do to make picoBeat better and most likely still bugs lurking here and there, but after a year of hard work it has reached a point where it is ready for a public release.

It is sort of a cliché by now, but picoBeat started as an experiment: an attempt to learn C# programming on Windows Mobile devices. The original plan was to build a software for one-click PIM backups to a remote server. Then came the idea of accessing those data directly on the server, and the ExtJS library was used to build a rich web client, which turned out to be a much bigger piece of software and the core of what is picoBeat now. This in turn led to writing a SyncML interface – broadening the synchronization possibilities from just Windows Mobile device to most cell phones on the market.

I am very much looking forward to receiving feedback so all comments are welcome. There’s already a long list of features and enhancements planned (including an email client, SMS integration, a journal) but the most important is that picoBeat can fulfill real-world needs rather than piling on features.