About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
Here’s how to build a very simple Ruby on Rails-based wiki engine 1. 1. Create the Rails App rails wiki and cd wiki to get inside the app. Remember: create your database (i.e. wiki_development) and update config/database.ymlappropriately 2. Generate the Scaffolding There are 3 nouns in this wiki system: People, Pages, Revisions. Let’s create the …
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(formerly TweetSpeak, changed as to eliminate confusion with TweetSpeak.com) While I’m fond of the Twitter-as-water-cooler metaphor, there was something missing. Namely Twitter is quiet, and offices are filled with loud, distracting chatter. If you’re on a Mac you can now remedy this issue with TwitterCooler.app. TwitterCooler downloads your friends tweets and reads them to you …
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I’ve just recorded 3 Quicktime walkthroughs of Cullect: Cullect.com Overview – Unsigned In 10:40 min Cullect.com – Signing in, managing items, inviting curators, adding feeds, posting to blogs & posting to twitter 9:28 min Adding Cullect.com to Other Applications 3:44 min
Right now, I’m heavily reliant on an unsupported (if not completely abandoned) ruby gem library. Historically, I’ve just gem install bizarro-gem and moved on. A couple of issues have changed my perspective: My host, textdrive, doesn’t allow installing bizarro gems on their shared servers and I’ve had difficulty freezing them, so I worked around the …
TwittergramHijacking is a little Applescript glue that makes it easy to send Twittergrams by connecting AudioHijackPro to Dave Winer‘s Twittergram service. More info at the TwittergramHijacking page. Thanks to Adario Strange at the Wired Epicenter blog for the link.
As a thanks to 75 people befriending Ququoo, I just deployed an update to Ququoo.com. Improvements include: RSS & iCal* feeds auto-hyperlinking urls permalinks fixed timezone bug If you dig the improvements, click one of the Ququoo PayPal subscription buttons. Thanks. *The iCal feeds are working as expected in iCal.app, but not in Google Calendar, …
18 people have befriended Ququoo. It seems to be working as expected. Praise Murphy.
Ququoo.com, my first Rails app is finally up and at a place where I’m happy with it. Ququoo turns Twitter into a timesheet – by grouping your tweets and measuring the time between them. As with any web app that was launched moments ago, there’s probably a few more things to tidy up and sort …
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Finally updated the WP-GotLucky download to the one I’ve been using, and David Seah fixed up for me. This version has RSS feeds by default (the previous one only did email) and automatically puts the most recent search queries in your Admin Dashboard.
QSPress now supports categories. But, I’m on a funky hotel internet right now, so I won’t be able to upload the new version until I get home tomorrow. We can celebrate then. Yeah!!! It’s up: QSPress 10 May 2007