Month: December 2008
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All your favourite software engineers, now in pictures
We now have a Mendeley Photostream on Flickr where you can follow all of our exploits. First up: Our geektastic Christmas party which started at the go-kart racing track and ended in a no-holds-barred Rockband session at our office. Moreover, pictures from my recent US tour giving talks and Mendeley demos at Drexel University, Princeton,…
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Keyboard Wars
As a software engineer who spends the vast majority of each day sat at a computer a good keyboard is very important to me. I’m sure it is the same with many people who spend a lot of time typing. It’s certainly the case for the other Mendeley developers: The Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard, favoured…
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Vote for your favourite new features on our new Mendeley feedback forum
We’ve set up a new feedback forum to make our development decisions, bugfixing progress, and overall roadmap more transparent. You can see other Mendeley users’ suggestions, discuss with them and our engineers, and vote on the features which are most important to you. Please go there and let us know what to do with our…
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Mendeley Desktop v0.6.1 released
This release is mainly a bug-fix release fixing the following problems: Fixed various problems with synchronisation Fixed automatic file-renaming Fixed interface freezes during folder monitoring and file import Fixed DOI lookup during automatic data extraction of PDFs Fixed duplicate file import Fixed filters view (bottom left of screen) showing all entries instead of entries specific…
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An external perspective
On my current US tour, I made a stop at Providence last weekend to meet up with Brandon King. Brandon is a neuroscience grad student at Brown University and has been one of our earliest users – his constant feedback has been tremendously helpful to us in improving Mendeley. He was also nice enough to…
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