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Basecamp Mobile Update
Posted on Thu 3 Aug, 2006
If you like our Basecamp Mobile system, then you’ll be pleased to know that I’ve been doing a lot of work on this recently.
If you’re looking forward to running this on your own server, you’ll be able to soon. This is a side project for me, so it gets bumped out the way for other paying projects, but I promise I’m working hard on it!
New product: Ebiwrite, the translator's toolkit
Posted on Mon 7 Aug, 2006
Over the last three months I’ve been working with a translator to produce a unique new product. The translator in question found that she wanted to keep her documents online, so she can easily access them and edit them anywhere. She also wanted to be able to see the original source text alongside her translation. Flipping back and forth between documents, printing things out, and general mucking about made her yearn for an application built just for translators.
We’ve taken the concept from an idea, to paper prototypes and now a working prototype. Amazingly, this prototype has only taken 3 weeks to design and code (all developed by me), and it’s now ready for our translator to play with.
Technically, the project is interesting: we’ve used a JavaScript model of the document within the browser, combined with Ajax to provide all the features you’d expect in an editor: keyboard shortcuts for quickly saving documents and auto-save….
Stopwatch for Tiktrac: A user-contributed script
Posted on Mon 28 Aug, 2006
Julian Romero has kindly written a Greasemonkey script to add stopwatch functionality to Tiktrac. This allows you to stop and start tasks as you work on them without needing to remember the time you spent.
Check it out here: http://wiki.mad.mw/GreaseMonkey/UserScripts/TikTracStopWatch
Greasemonkey is an extension for Firefox that allows developers to modify how websites work. In this example, Julian has written some JavaScript that adds a stopwatch to each task on your Tiktrac dashboard.
To install this script:
- Get the Greasemonkey extension
- Go to Julian’s wiki
- Right click “TikTracStopWatch.user.js ” and select “Install This User Script…”
Now you should see something like this when you’re using Tiktrac:
!http://assets.helicoid.net/ima…