Here’s a personal project I’ve been working on for a while: http://deadlineapp.com/
I find calendars hard to use but I like writing, so I wanted to create a calendar that uses natural language parsing to make sense of text. You can search for words or dates, so typing “next week” shows you all your events for next week.
When I designed the interface I threw away all the typical web app stuff. There’s barely any navigation, no footer, no extra links for “account”, etc. When you hover the logo minimal navigation appears, and…
DHH wrote this: Myth #2: Rails is expected to crash 400 times/day – a response to a myth about Rails processes regularly needing restarts.
I’m a big Rails hacker, it’s 90% of what I’ve done for years. I’ve designed and developed these apps: Tiktrac, Ebiwrite, Helipad, Deadline, Loom and Reuters Real Estate, this blog, not to mention work for smaller clients I …
I recently shared my first LittleBigPlanet level (PSN: ambalek, level name: Saturn 5) and I kept notes as I was making it. It turns out that even though it’s easy to make cool stuff, it’s actually quite hard to make levels that players can understand and play through successfully.
