Lifejot.com re-launched
October 24th, 2007
Man we've been busy!
We threw our hat in the Rails Rumble ring with our buddies Mike and El. We didn't win but 48 hours of pure coding was a rush and our app worked. Good times.
We've been working on a few different projects, too. Lifejot.com is our recently re-launched shopping list maker. JasonC started this one a couple years ago using .net. It was working fine but we needed to add some features and the site needed a facelift. There was no way we were going to hassle with doing it in .net. Converting this app to Rails was a piece of cake.
Lifejot lets a user create unlimited shopping lists. Usually these lists are created by store but you can create them however you like; Shopping list, Christmas list, Wish list, any list will do. Each list has drag-and-drop reordering. Most of the forms are ajax-loaded and most parts of the main list page are also ajax-refreshed. Lists can be printed, emailed, and merged or copied. It's a great improvement over v1!
We're also working on some ideas to monitize the site. I don't think we'll ever charge a user but we think there are many opportunities to partner up with services and, of course, advertisers. We'd love to hear if anyone has any other ideas.
Nomadic Functions
April 24th, 2007
I was browsing around last night looking for a good JavaScript color picker and came across this little website called Nomadic Functions. Contains a bunch of small, specific JavaScript functions are are fairly useful. One of which, is a snazzy DHTML color picker!
Few other helpful scripts they have are:
- AJAX Star Rating
- Dynamic Fonts
- Sphere Color Picker
- Table Organize
- Table Sort
The UI Guy
April 21st, 2007
And I'm the UI Guy...currently working as a UI Development Mgr at one of those 'bigger' companies where UI tends to clash with 'marketing'. =)
This pretty much says it all!