My guy Dave has many side projects. Well, I have many side projects too… I guess we all do. Any­way, Dave’s biggest side project over the last cou­ple of years has been DVD Col­lec­tor, a free­ware pro­gram for, fun­nily enough, man­ag­ing your DVD Col­lec­tion. Dave is fanat­i­cal about inter­face design, so that’s one of the best aspects of the pro­gram — an easy to use, clear and good look­ing inter­face. He’s had some crazy num­ber of down­loads over the last cou­ple of years, it’s been on the cover CD of PC User mag­a­zine, and it’s going to be on the cover CD of PC World mag­a­zine soon.

Any­way, Dave’s been tied up in some other side projects recently — and get your mind out of the gut­ter, I don’t mean like that — namely, Salon Man­ager for my Mum’s shop. But finally he’s fin­ished with that, and get­ting back into ver­sion 2 of DVD Col­lec­tor. He’s get­ting a lot of inter­est, and so to chron­i­cle the project he’s set up a blog, Devel­oper Crumbs. He has a PHP host­ing account, and while he installed a few dif­fer­ent blog engines (includ­ing Word­Press) he ended up lik­ing pLog the best.