June 2012
9 posts
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Itemize Gets a Facelift
I’ve been meaning to do this for a while. Tonight I decided to take a couple of hours and redesign Itemize, my free invoicing web app. I think the new UI is much cleaner and more subtle. I debated the color palette (which I found on COLOURLovers months ago) for a while. I really like it, but parts of it may be too low-contrast. We’ll see.
I also moved the site onto EC2 and set it up...
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Fargo-It's like Margo, but with rubies
I’ve had a busy week, and I’ll have a busy weekend working. I have documentation to write and code to er… code. So tonight I wanted to do something fun.
So I made Fargo - It’s a Ruby clone of Margo, which is the wee blogging engine we built to publish the podcasts (our 10th episode went live today, by the way).
It takes about 12 seconds to get up and running on Heroku and...
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On Critiques
Earlier today, I stumbled across an article by developer Michael Wright, about critiques, and why he no longer gives them.
This article is, I think, very much true. Many people, especially those new to design don’t want an honest critique. They want praise for their efforts. Really, I think part of that is human nature. If you just spent 20hrs learning to do something new, even if the end...
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Yet another round of updates to Happy Docs
This is what, the third update in a week?
Tonight I added some features, refined some existing functionality, and did a fairly substantial amount of clean-up to the Happy Docs interface.
Updates include:
Published/Unpublished Status for Pages & Resources - Now you can save resources and pages as drafts. Drafts aren’t visible in the public documentation or export formats and are...
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API Query Tool Integration With Happy Docs
It was bound to happen. :) After finishing the API Query Tool a couple of days ago, I decided to integrate some of the functionality into HappyDocs.
Not only can you now query your API, you can create resources based on those queries. This will take you to the Create Resource page, where as much information as possible will be filled in based on the executed query, including parameters and sample...
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Next Up: A simple web interface for querying REST...
After releasing Pulp a couple of days ago, I figured I would use it to build a small demo application, and I also figured that this application should be a Thing I Want To Use.
So, in the spirit of small, simple tools that solve my everyday problems, I made a little web interface for querying REST APIs that supports multiple request methods, custom headers, HTTP Basic Auth and, of course, passing...
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Re-thinking Pulp
You may remember that a while back, I introduced Pulp - my homespun HTML/CSS boilerplate.
The project has undergone a lot of changes since the initial release, though I hadn’t updated the public code. A lot of the initial boilerplate was removed or redone. I stripped out a lot of things that I had initially included, but then found that I was never using.
I decided it was time for an...
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Really Simple Time Tracking with Do This Now
I was playing around a bit last night and made a tiny time tracking application, Do This Now.
This is about as basic as it gets, folks. Just enter a title for what you want to do and click ‘Start’ to start tracking the time you’ve spent doing that thing. If you want to save the item for future reference, or to work on more later, then just hit the ‘Save Item’...
