http://development.roommateapp.com Building a bill manager, and some other stuff Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:24:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been over a month now since launching Roommate App, and for not advertising and not having any kind of marketing website, it's doing pretty well. I've been getting a lot of good feedback/requests as well. I kind of burnt myself out a little on the project getting it ... http://development.roommateapp.com/2009/06/testing-roommate-app/ Finally got the SSL certificate from Starfield set up. It was a bit trickier of a process because it's a wild card cert, meaning it covers all subdomains of roommateapp.com as well. These are a lot more expensive too, though not too bad through my reseller account at Heffernan.biz. About ... http://development.roommateapp.com/2009/05/roommate-app-is-secure/ Roommate App is live! Shhhhhh. : ) It's available for anyone to sign up, but It's not 100% tested, so I'm waiting to tell anybody. For those who find this and try it out, let me know if you find any bugs. Thanks! Roommate App http://development.roommateapp.com/2009/04/shhhhh-its-launched/ Very close to launching Roommate App. I'm at a point where I'm cutting back on features that don't absolutely have to be there for launch, and making sure the ones that are there are solid. I even designed a super simple homepage. I've been hearing/reading a lot about how if you ... http://development.roommateapp.com/2009/04/soooo-close/ Quick update pertaining to RESTful CSS, a method for organizing CSS I wrote a little while ago. I created a few extra helpers for the body tag. I've been adding IDs and classes to the body tag in the form of id="controller_action" class="controller action", so I created these methods to both ... http://development.roommateapp.com/2009/04/restful-css-update/ I'm out in Wisconsin for the month of April working in the Sevenwire office, and getting a lot done. Including getting very close to launching Roommate App. Just cleaning some things up, and tying up some loose ends, though it feels like I've been doing that forever now. My latest big ... http://development.roommateapp.com/2009/04/no-more-dashboard/ Just following up on my own internal discussion from last night about my ActiveForm javascript library. I started switching everything to extend the elements themselves instead of building the functionality into separate objects. One thing I found was there was no way extending the form element was going to work. There ... http://development.roommateapp.com/2009/02/activeform-part-2/ I'm writing this post mainly to think through a javascript library I'm working on. The library is called ActiveForm, and the concept is similar to how ActiveRecord objects in Rails interact with the database. ActiveForm, or rather its children ActiveFormField objects get and set values from actual input elements, while utilizing ... http://development.roommateapp.com/2009/02/activeform/ Got a lot done this evening. Redesigned the dashboard and roommate views and did the html/css for both. Also got bill splitting and payments sending out confirmation emails. That covered a good chunk of my to-do lists, so moving along steadily towards my new goals and launch date of April 1. I ... http://development.roommateapp.com/2009/02/progress/ Yeah, I know this is getting old, but I've got some new goals. I've been side tracked by some other projects, including Bryan Clay's website, but I'm sticking to these this time...really. Launch by April 1. Online payments by May 15. The second could be a lofty goal, but we'll see. Brandon ... http://development.roommateapp.com/2009/02/new-deadlines/