About Codekana and Symnum Systems

My name is Jon Beltran de Heredia, and Symnum Systems is my currently-single-person company. My aim is to provide better tools for software developers, by re-thinking software development challenges and finding new angles to solve them better.

The whole drive behind this is that software development should be fast, reliable and fun. Current practice is very far from this, so the market gap is enormous!

Symnum was previously known as NGEDIT Software. Symnum Systems SL was incorporated recently, but it's functionally the same as NGEDIT Software previously. The NGEDIT website still has plenty of information, and holds my more-business-oriented blog.

Both I and Symnum Systems are based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, a small town in the Basque country (north of Spain). I used to be based in Madrid, but moved here in 2007 with no disruption at all to existing customers. Miracles allowed by the Internet!

Codekana, first released in 2007, was the second main product by Symnum, after the ViEmu family of vi/vim emulators for Visual Studio, Word, Outlook and SQL Server. I have been working in these emulators since 2005, and they actually became both the core of the NGEDIT business, and the starting point for Codekana. Integrating with Visual Studio is no picnic, and what I learned and developed for ViEmu/VS was instrumental in being able to design and implement Codekana.

In a “previous life” I was a book author (I wrote a book on x86 assembly language programming, in Spanish, published by Anaya and which was pretty popular in Spain), and a professional games developer (the golf game credit on that page is wrong, btw — the others are correct).

I'm also a co-founder of the J1CK project, which is a very exciting team-project with other partners, developers, etc... focusing on the mobile market. Follow the J1CK blog for updates on this project.

You can easily reach me by email, using any of the support forms, and via Twitter at http://twitter.com/jonbho

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