Recently our friends at Artworkbank launched their web service – a site where galleries and collectors can put photos and descriptions of their artworks and share them with customers and partners.
Our part was to implement the very javascript heavy user interface as well as the marketing site. We also gave their Dublin-based team a helping hand on the server side implementation work.
We’re proud to announce the launch of Skatstube.de.
Skatstube is a sister site of the ‘Schafkopf’ Site Sauspiel.de (currently about 77,000 users) — a German online card playing community. We help their Berlin-based team in nearly every aspect regarding the community website, including design, HTML/CSS/Javascript and Ruby programming.
Skatstube is currently in public beta and we’re still busy working with their team to provide the best German online community for playing Skat online.
We’re still busily working on freckle. Yesterday our friends from Beanstalk launched their freckle integration. Now you can track your time directly via Subversion commit message.
A big thanks to the guys at Beanstalk for the awesome collaboration!
The current version of timed_fragment_cache from Richard Livsey is not yet compatible with Rails 2.2.
I’ve added a patch to my fork of the plugin on github, which makes it compatible with Rails 2.2 by using the new output_buffer method instead of a binding.
Note that the change breaks compatibility with earlier versions of Rails. So use my fork only with Rails 2.2 or later.
You can find the code here: timed_fragment_cache
Speaking of freckle extractions:
Amy did a Jump Start Credit Card Processing Cheat Sheet for this year’s Ruby Advent. It is based on experiences from our work on freckle.
The sheet also includes some Javascript goodness from Thomas which he details on his blog.
We know we’re a little late to our own party, but now that the dust has settled a bit, we’ll give you a short intro about freckle, our first product we built together with our friends from slash7: Amy and Thomas.
Freckle is a software-as-a-service product which makes time-tracking and report-creating easy and fast. Period.
For us, the main reason we wanted to build a time tracking app was that there just wasn’t any app out there which was easy enough for us to actually use the product and thus, track time.
In all the time tracking products we tried so far, we didn’t find any product which was different in the way you enter time. They only differentiated themselves from the others on the surface but never in the process.
As Tim Bray puts it in Build It For Yourself we knew, we had to sit down and build something which makes it easy for us to track our time just the way we want to. Coincidentally, Amy and Thomas had exactly the same problem which then led to an awesome collaboration between us. With freckle we created something which kind of rethinks the way you’re used to enter time.
Freckle comes with 3 paid plans and 1 free plan and offers a free 30-day trial period for all paid plans. Be sure to read our manifesto and subscribe to the freckle blog or follow us on twitter for product updates.
Freckle is powered by the latest and greatest Rails 2.2 and runs on Passenger (aka mod_rails). We utilize Exceptional for hunting down bugs and newrelic for keeping an eye on performance.
For UI enhancements and animation niceties we use the in-the-works scriptaculous 2 (which will have it’s own exciting announcements soon) as well as the well-established Prototype framework.
Give freckle a try and expect more soon.
The last couple months have been pretty busy for us, with a lot of visits to our friends in Berlin, a week in Spain and a few exciting new things to launch in the coming weeks.
This blog post, however, is about a T-shirt we recently designed for our good friends over at the Tupalo office.
Mainly about celebrating the USA’s 44th president-elect Barack Obama, this shirt is also a special take on Austrias new-ish ‘Krocha’-subculture, which uses the expression “Bam oida!” for nearly everything new/hip/cool/awesome and therefore in every second sentence.
Enough bla, here it is:
Order one over at the Merchzilla store or sign-up as a Tupalo user and get the chance to win one.
webstock conference —
We were there!
