RescueTime: Manage Goals and Alerts

I’ve come across a fantastic product that I absolutely must see it reviewed!  It’s called RescueTime, and I found it through the GetSatisfaction.com network.  The goal of the software is to install a “fly on the wall” on the user’s computer, which tracks and monitors the time spent using various web pages and applications.

The user is enabled to tag web sites with custom-defined tag words, and further to define goals and alerts that remind “too much time spent on x, that’s 45 minutes already today” or “not enough time spent on y today, forget about that extra round of golf tomorrow!”

A time management software is central to any business as well as technology or legal firms, and this one promises to allow each user an equal chance to conjecture about their own usage patterns, with beautiful charts and graphs, as well as world-class support.

The support delivered on the GetSatisfaction.com network itself is worth a plug, as long as our threads are so closely intertwined… this network enables companies to define products which can be discussed and reported on in a public forum atmosphere!

Dedicated support personnel can be assigned or volunteer to represent a product in the public eye, in a digital community place where that product can earn publicity and attention, even funding patrons, capital investors or users.

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PDF Gravl Grails

http://blogs.bytecode.com.au/glen/2007/12/17/

It’s so easy: declare a bytearray output and a textrenderer, feed in a URL, layout, and create a PDF. Put it in the byte array, feed it back to the browser with a ContentType and HTTP headers, and your application is PDF-enabled with Flying Saucer.

Bar Camp

http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampRochester3

PHP with PEAR and PECL: Application Development and a Casino Simulator

Notes: Coming Soon

The River Flows

I would suggest that I could get more work done in a single Saturday/Sunday sprint than I would inside of a complete Monday-Friday eight hour workaday cycle.

In a city built on the word and the number, in a hierarchical corporate environment…

wxPython in Action: event-driven GUI programming

To every Jane and Joe Programmer,
chained to their computer, burning the midnight oil,
striving to make a dream come true

about digital news systems

Had another order from the same client as last week Sunday, on a new topic:

Digital News Systems

Requirement is 6-10 pages by the end of the night tonight on the changes in the media publishing industry and how new media and a changing environment has changed the publishing industry.  How have new technologies such as mobile phones, blogs, web publishing, and digital networking created an impact on the working field reporter, back-office editor, paperboy and news street vendor?  How is the atmosphere changing for news consumers and what new types of information sources are available to them?

Mutable Web Pages

I’ve got some requests for a web page that a regular person can edit, and I’ve got some requests for test-driven development and proving Java web applications.  I don’t know exactly what direction is up, from here.  I’ve been told PHP is pretty good for web dev, well my last experience with that was two generations ago: PHP3

We’ve moved on to PHP5 these days, which includes all new conventions for object-oriented programming and pluggable modules.  I think the updates are probably a good thing!  Just a little afraid to see what happens if I deploy the latest PHP5 and Microsoft IIS, I’m going to install the latest free WAMP server on this machine and see what happens in three more hours of work.

Not really displeased with my Grails progress, even though I haven’t got a product, I have got a pretty clear channel to a man in Australia who does speaking engagements for Grails, and has developed his own blog application: Gravl, using the Groovy language and Grails framework.  I can’t make it work myself, but there are only a few errors, and I left him a note.

client

I’ll still call these people as clients even when they are actually sending me a bill.  Is that deceptive marketing?

about biomed

this client order was cancelled.  sorry for the trouble!