Hello!

I’m ebr.  Welcome to my new entity.

I’ve been spending A LOT of time lately working on the dev team for MediaBrowser.  If you’re here I’m going to assume you already know what that is and have probably seen me around stumbling through the forums and community tracker.

I’ve had a great time working as a dev on this awesome product that Sam and Jas (Soultaker) have created and hope to continue that work.  However, I’ve also had some ideas for some capabilities I’d like to see in the product that aren’t necessarily suited to be a part of the core implementation.  The last few iterations of features I’ve helped implement in MediaBrowser have been towards the goal of expanding the plug-in architecture to allow some of these things to be implemented.

My work on the plug-in theme implementation and the new context item menu are basically the architectural groundwork that allow the already great plug-in system to be even better.  With these features now inside of MB core, one can create extremely rich and flexible plug-ins that interact as if they were in the main program.  This allows many new capabilities to be added without making the core MediaBrowser experience too complex.  Thus creating a great product for both casual “I just want to install it and go” users as well as the super-tweaking power user (you know who you are…)

Anyway, so now comes ebrSoft.  I’ve created this entity to make it a little easier to distribute and support the new plug-ins I’d like to create.  But also, honestly, because at some point in the not-too-distant future, I may need to try and produce some sort of payback for all the time I am now spending on these efforts.  Now, rest assured, I have no plans of launching some sort of “bait and switch” tactic with crippled software and required payment or licensing.  I just want the ability to maybe ask for some donations down the road and be able to more easily manage the distribution and support of the things I create.

For now, however, I will just make my offerings available with no strings of any kind and endeavor to create and support them to the best of my ability.  Please register on the forums and post any feature requests, bug reports, ideas or general discussion in the appropriate place out there.

Thanks for stopping by.