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This week, I’m dreaming of a nice application mailer that integrates with Ruby on Rails. Specifically, I want something like Campaign Monitor, but without the metered costs so that I can be a little more free to send emails to my users. Most of the applications I have built recently require that I send emails [...]
I use Trac to manage my tasks, tickets, and wiki for my various projects. Here are my top 3 dream enhancements that I would use today: Campfire Notifications – instead of using email notifications for ticket changes, allow me to provide Campfire credentials and post notifications there rather than over email. Combined with Marshmallow, Campfire [...]
I use GMail for my personal email account, as well as for managing several domains, including my latest application Church Director. There are times when I’d like to see a few things different for GMail. Here is my short list: Mac attachment handling – I get forwarded emails from users of OS X’s mail program. [...]
Things have been quite busy on my Rails project this week, so I only have 2 projects for you: A better Windows XP version of iTunes – I use iTunes mostly as a podcatcher and iPod synchronization tool. I’ve bookmarked a couple of substitutes (with no time to evaluate them yet), but I’d love to [...]
My dream projects for this week: Linux Software RAID configurator tool – I have yet to see a good Linux tool for expressing, at a high level, that I want 4 mount points, with the 1st as RAID 1 /boot at xxx MB with ext3fs, the second as RAID 5 / at xxx GB with [...]
acts_as_paranoid (“AAP”) is a Ruby on Rails plugin that does not delete the row when destroy() is called. Rather, it sets a deleted_at field to a non-null value. The find() method is modified to skip any deleted records, thus making it easy to find only those rows that are considered active. You can locate previously [...]
Simon Yorke, who builds record players in his shop in Spain, on why he doesn’t use machines to create his record players: “We make everything by hand. Yes, we have machines; we have test operators. But, we make everything by hand. Why? If you manufacture everything, in a factory, using computers, everything comes out exactly [...]
Inspired by Christopher Hawkins, here is my first in a series of dream projects I’d love to build or see built. Remember the Customer – A user interface and API not unlike Remember The Milk for Lead Management. It may not take much to craft RTM into an RTC, just a few well-placed fields for [...]
Nick Bradbury had a blog series some time ago called “Simplicity Ain’t So Simple”, where he covered tips for simple software feature design. Here are the posts in case you missed them, as they have been a great reminder for me while designing for a new startup: Part I: Decide What to Hide Part II: [...]
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