The browser interface is coming along faster than expected, thanks to Ruby on Rails - one of the best thought-out pieces of software I’ve ever worked with. Ruby itself is a great language, and the infrastructure around it is much nicer than Python (eg install programs from the command line by “gems install rails” - it’ll search it out on the internet, download it, and install it for you).
Here’s the current Home View - basically a table of contents on your data, with a listing of all the Types stored, some statistics, etc. I’m still working out how the pages will be layed out. There might be a list of views along the top - Home, List, Code, Calendar, Schedule, Project, etc. And some standard filter, sort, and group controls.
Today I’m working on a Project View, which will summarize a project and its subprojects, and will eventually be used for this site. I’ve given up on using any of the existing bug tracking programs - it doesn’t seem worth the effort of cramming my data into their format, when I can get a simple system up and running on Ruby on Rails, all tied into the rest of the project information (goals, related projects, documentation, people, etc.).
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January 3rd, 2006 at 2:31 am
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December 9th, 2005 at 7:03 am
Ivan
Brian, Home view looks fine (simple and useful). And what about schedule view?
December 10th, 2005 at 5:55 pm
bburns
Haha, well, not for a while. Still just working on the admin functions, and trying to catch up to Ruby and Rails (reading the books).
But once the skeleton is up, the views should go fairly quickly, I hope.
December 17th, 2005 at 11:23 am
pakkio
Quite interested in your product. It appears to me similar to mind-maps, but with a lot of structured possibilities.
I would really love to have some export features or cut/paste to (and why not from?) excel or access.
This will allow to really use this product in the best way.
If you know any trick that I can use now to export to excel, please tell me
Thanks,
claudio
December 19th, 2005 at 3:33 am
bburns
yes, import and export are definitely high on the list of requested features. i’m working to at least get the source code hosted online so people can start contributing to the program.
currently the best you can do for export is copy the grid from the Contents View and paste it into excel.
regards,
brian
January 4th, 2006 at 3:23 am
Paul Kishimoto
This looks like an awesome candidate to replace the various PHP address book / personal finance / music collection / instant messaging history / etc. apps I’ve been collecting, searching for or intending to write myself.
Getting this open-source should be a huge priority. I’d gladly contribute.
January 4th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
bburns
Thanks Paul, that would be great - I haven’t started seeking out developers yet because I’m still working on the getting the skeleton in place, which might be a couple of months. And yeah, from what I’ve seen, Rails is the way to go for web development - much cleaner than PHP.
January 15th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Mariwal
This sounds the best thing
A Mysql basead neomem version
The possibilitis of use are infinites
I can publish all my data (lyrics, contacts, urls, etc.)
Thanks a lot.