Tuesday March 24 2009
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on getting TwoNeeds back on track. After six months or so of active development we had a rather complex but solidly designed and scalable back end and UI for most of the important features. However, ...
Tuesday March 24 2009
A while ago I said that developing for Google Apps was like SharePoint in the lack of documentation and hacks required to work around the issues. I have since discovered something more unique to Google - sudden changes to the behaviour of API calls ...
Wednesday March 18 2009
I just deployed an updated version of GDNote. The bugs fixed are getting fairly small now - the latest one was triggered only if you reload a section while the web service call to create it is running. However, some users are running into issues we ...
Thursday March 5 2009
The last couple of weeks have been pretty busy, as is to be expected when you have six or so active projects. Among other things, I got GDNote to the point where I could remove the placeholder page and make it publicly available. It's still a beta, ...
Monday February 9 2009
I'm writing this somewhere over Indonesia on a flight from Bangkok to Sydney. I find that I am always particularly productive on long flights - I guess it's something to do with knowing I'm sitting here for nine hours whatever I do.
So far I've r...
Saturday February 7 2009
Stopping work completely isn't something I find easy to do these days - taking a couple of months off full time consulting seems to have resulted in more work rather than less - but the last couple of days I have been taking some time away from th...
Tuesday February 3 2009
GDNote isn't quite ready to launch yet, but we have started giving out access to the application (email beta@gdnote.com if you want in). Yesterday we got our first real user. Obviously one user alone isn't enough to make a successful service, but it...
Saturday January 31 2009
It's been a few years since I last did serious javascript development. The tools have certainly improved a lot.
Having performance issues somewhere in several thousand lines of javascript is never a good thing, but with a little data from FireB...
Friday January 30 2009
Actually using an application makes a big difference to which features seem important. Since starting to use GDNote I've added a few features that earlier seemed like things that could be done later.
Archiving - Hiding pages that you don't want ...
Friday January 30 2009
GDNote is a notebook application built on top of Google Docs and using a structure and UI similar to OneNote. It runs in the browser (tested with Firefox, Safari and IE) and uses Google Gears for offline access.
We just passed a fairly important...