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Proud Daddy

Nov 13, 2006 12:37

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widgets, coding

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skarsol November 13 2006, 21:09:58 UTC

Code hoarder! :P Good luck :)

someoneelse November 13 2006, 23:03:33 UTC

I only hoarde because its 15,000 lines of javascript alone, then there'e the XML and graphics. I normally share.

Thanks :)

skarsol November 13 2006, 23:25:16 UTC

Pfft, thats like 2 days work! :P~

lechach November 13 2006, 21:45:29 UTC

Did you actually have to all-out learn Ruby on Rails to put this thing together? And what does this widget do again? Track communications and deadlines or something?

Down with the 'soft and their stupid gantt-charts! If they start trying to make me use Project again, as has been proposed here at the office, I may have to resort to bringing Basecamp in to save the day... Just need to find someone smarter than me to implement it first...

someoneelse November 13 2006, 23:06:06 UTC

Nah, I didn't have to touch RoR for this. I just had to work with their API.

It tracks tasks, deadlines, communications, people, files and (optionally) time usage. And implemenation is super duper easy. It's a hosted application, so you don't actually have to set anything up on your server.

lechach November 14 2006, 04:57:25 UTC

super duper easily implemented hosted applications RULE. I'll be using your widget if we have to go there.

saturnfall November 14 2006, 02:00:41 UTC

You're eff'n awesome. You are the only person I the whole world I know who has heard of basecamp, let alone coded your own widget for it. Hell, you're the only person in the whole world I know who's coded a widget at all. (I'm a very lonely closet geek)

someoneelse November 14 2006, 02:22:31 UTC

No J, you're eff'n awesome.

Did you ever end up using Yahoo Widgets? Cause you're welcome to the widget all you want. :) http://widgets.clearspanmedia.com/headquarters/

saturnfall November 14 2006, 02:54:04 UTC

I did for a while but their use fizzled as I found that all the dynamic information I really needed could be handled by google reader. Your gas price widget is one of the few that I thought was worthwhile. I'm planning on reworking my getting things done implementation over the Christmas holidays so I'll have to check out your widget then.

saturnfall November 14 2006, 11:27:06 UTC

which makes me wonder... what widgets (other than your own, which are top-notch by default) do you have on your desktop?

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