Sorry for the long silence. I have been coding furiously to deploy a decent-looking (and functioning) public beta, and I’m finally down to the wire. Expect a first look next week. No matter how hard I try to account for unknowns, learning curve, etc., in software estimation, I always “misunderestimate.” If you’ve been around software [...]
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Do you know what it sounds like inside a one-man startup?
The sound of one hand clapping.
I hear bits and pieces from a few friends, but basically, nobody knows about ROA yet. Which is because I haven’t done an effective job communicating, of course. Which is due to two major factors:
A blog is the wrong format [...]
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ROAblog now has an official address: blog.RememberOneAnother.com.
Unfortunately, I learned I cannot host the top-level site here (RememberOneAnother.com) without changing my domain’s nameservers to WordPress. But this would prevent me from pointing other addresses in the domain to the Google AppEngine servers. Otherwise, I think I could have made it work using a custom CSS and [...]
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I finally decided to host the ROA Web site on WordPress.com for the excellent content management system and great selection of widgets. Not to mention I’m tired of maintaining servers! In preparation for the imminent public launch, I shelled out $15 for the custom CSS option and modified the Digg 3 theme with the ROA [...]
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I’ve been receiving the daily emails for several days now, and it does exactly what I had hoped: remind me to pray for specific people each day. Here’s a sample:
Your daily ROA for December 1, 2009
My Friends
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Andrew
My Family
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Rebekah
Anna
Karen
DI Bible Study
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Hong
I don’t have a lot of people / requests in my dev database yet, but even [...]
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This was an extra special Thanksgiving for me. It was to great to see my parents, siblings, nephews, nieces, and grandparents again, and to top it off, on the day after I successfully received the first daily ROA prayer email. My brother-in-law and I were sitting at my folks’ kitchen table, laptops facing each other, [...]
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The past week feels like it has really flown by, no doubt in part to my very earnest effort and desire to get the daily email going. I came very close and might have made it had it not been for a thing of beauty in code that commanded my attention yesterday and a very [...]
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I completed a major code refactoring today to separate the admin UI from the public Web app UI. The admin UI is needed to manage the daily email queues, and I’ve been putting off building it, but the shell is now in place and we’re scooting along. This was huge as I was very discouraged [...]
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After much hand-wringing, I have finally managed to get Daily ROA working in the Web app. This is the core of RememberOneAnother. It collates prayer requests from all your prayer lists into a single daily prayer list. Currently, all prayer lists default to weekly rotation, which you cannot change (yet). You can, however, shuffle each [...]
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If you know Java Web development and would like to learn GWT and Google AppEngine, I’d like to talk with you. I am underwater on this project and could really use a coding partner to keep things moving. Please shoot me a note at dchandler ‘at’ turbomanage d0t com.
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