Well, it was two weekends but, yeah, pretty much! Not to forget the giants on whose shoulders I stand on to make it: Rails, Heroku, gems like Paperclip, S3, Bootstrap. The list goes on and on and on...
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The issue I personally have with LEDs is that they can get annoying to the people around you and, if the signal (orange/green) is essentially the same as with an analog counter-part, then what would the point really be? Of course, once electronic, you could hook in sensors to read direction etc to update your online jabber status etc (but can become gimmicky and requires a powersource of some kind, among other concerns)
Here is my immediate feedback:
1. Overall looks good, professional enough to trust. (Personally, not a big fan of vanilla Bootstrap 2.0. But I'll hopefully be one in thousand users who even know what that is)
2. Awesome, a clear call to action! However, I was hesitant because besides a bunch of icons and paragraphs of promises, it's not tangible how it works and how you are solving issues better than a bunch of magnets, a fridge and small pieces of paper. Add a walk-through or at least a few screenshots.
3. Login with Facebook only (as noted by others) makes sense but I'm not a big fan of this being the only option. Case in point, one of my past roommates did not have a facebook account.
4. Join or create a "Room" -- Errr... This naming made no sense (to me) whatsoever. Why are you replacing 'shared residency' or 'house' or 'apartment' with 'room'? To me, this is silly and - in my interpretation - seems like an overly clever play on the words 'room' and 'roommates'. Unless of course, you think we all sleep in bunk-beds in the same physical room (which, if you live in New York City is a possibility).
Okay, so I am now on my dashboard, I understand that my other roommates need to be invited. Okay. Instead, I'd like to poke around a bit first. I'd like to schedule/add chores, some existing bills, todos etc. so that, when they join, there is something to use/look at. Hm, that doesn't work because of some before_filter requires me to have them join first. That's a no-go for me.
Right now, I still have _no_ _idea_ how this thing works, what kind of forms/options you are going to give me and if they apply to the specific real-world situation (since there was nothing to be seen or checked-out pre-registration).
Because of the requirement of invitation, I can't move forward checking out what it does, so I'm losing interest quickly and am bound to leave and possibly never return.
Keep up! Looking forward to the next iteration :)
On a sidenote: I found that a lot of my verses end up with MC Escher.
If you have a node selected and
* hit <TAB> it creates and preselects a new child node. * hit <SHIFT><TAB> it creates and preselects a new sibling node.
But there is one thing missing - unless I missed it:
Keyboard shortcuts to create sibling and childnodes from any given currently selected node.
The reasoning is that mind-mapping happens fast and I've refused any tool that would need me use my mouse instead of just 'throwing' nodes out there.
Please note that this was the one capability that made me not use most of the desktop apps out there and also had me pay for a license of novamind without asking twice.
Also, but this is to me secondary, the ability to make edges between random nodes can be of great benefit as well. Again, see novamind for their implementation.
Other than that, congratulations to your application!
The reasoning to have the form available is that I think you should be able to change your goal as you please.
It could be hidden though and only shown when you opt out of the current one.
For my own experience, I've been using it for about 10 days (usually change goals once or twice a day) and it has been working out for myself.
I would definitely like to hear your progress: Is it just a nice idea or something that actually helps.
I was in a similar situation and format, and rehearsed my presentation 100++ times. Worked out well.
In the minutes before the presentation: Breathe. Exhaling longer than inhaling will calm your nervous system substantially within a minute or two.
The above described method has proven itself to be superior to what I was doing before.
Recently, I got some medium/high quality Sencha at my favorite place Ten Ren down in Chinatown.
Lessons learned from their main man:
0. Never use boiling water, but instead around 80-85 degree Celsius (okay, that seems to be common sense) 1. If the quality of the tea is so-so, discharge the first steep after 1-2 seconds. High-grade tea needs no cleaning. This step gets rid of the dust and ensures a clear color. 2. First steeping for maximum 1 minute 30 seconds. 3. Second steeping for only about 40 (!) seconds. 4. Third steeping for about 50 seconds.
Why isn't the list ranked?
On refresh of the page, could you swap the background image? I like the one you have, but since there are probably a thousand awesome, CC-licensed images on Flickr, you could play around with that, too..
Give it a spin and let me know if it works for you!
If anyone is interested, I built this webapp for myself to keep track of my progress. My meditation training can be found at http://stepset.com/habits/efac7b8e-6446-11df-ab99-7f306a906e...