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  Bug/Defects

  I seem to have also broke the expand feature.  I'm so awesome, sledgehammer, glass house, and whatnot.

  Posted 08 Jun 07 in iStalkr Feedback

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  Help Us Get the Word Out

  Truly is a fragile thing.  Have been on the phone doing interviews for developer jobs in RoR and I'm torn between saying "Oh man I'm so horrible you could bring me on just so I can do stupid stuff" and "Oh man I can totally do anything, just lay it on me".  Even a compliment and a recommendation from one of the top Ruby programmers doesn't help.   But helping iStalkr get major big might.
  
  It's actually a big deal that iStalkr ever gets updated.  I've got an almost crippling desire to make the code perfect before I post it.  Lynn has helped me work through that with promises of alcohol if I do and severe beatings if I don't meet her timelines.

  Posted 05 Jun 07 in iStalkr Feedback

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  coComment Integration

  I'll admit it's a little frustrating not having an RSS feed.  coComment would be nice, but honestly I'd settle for an RSS/ATOM feed where I can see what I posted, or what my friends and I have posted.  Plus that would really help it integrate with iStalkr.com (shameless plug), which is where I go to see what all my friends are up to (when it's up and running =P). 

  Posted 21 May 07 in Tangler Feedback

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  can i speak chinese here?

  Yeah, it's an awesome web dev tool, and I'm hoping twitter can get things worked out, I really like the service, but I've been rather put off by its downtime lately, I'm not quite a RoR fanatic yet where I can ignore all the problems =P. 

  I'm wondering how you guys keep your performance problems rather low.  I mean I tend to use tangler on off hours, but I can imagine almost realtime data like this has got to be a pain to manage quickly, and while there have been some times when I yell at the site for not loading quick enough, it isn't as bad as a lot of other sites.

  Posted 21 May 07 in Tangler Feedback

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  Routing

  Yeah, that is the same thing that we are doing on iStalkr, it would be a great help and make remembering it a lot easier.

  Posted 21 May 07 in Tangler Feedback

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  iStalkr

  Yeah, Lynn's a newb at reading, don't mind her =P.  To be fair (which I am far to often), when Lynn posted it wasn't there.

  Posted 20 May 07 in Beta Testers

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  Feature Requests/Suggestions

  Yeah, you are supposed to decide what you wanna do with your life by 25, if you do your chances of being successful are higher.  I'm still not sure, although web development is making a strong push =P.
  
  Thanks all for the birthday wishes.

  Posted 20 May 07 in iStalkr Feedback

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  Rails sites list

  http://happycodr.com/ had a pretty good site setup for showing apps made with Rails.  At the moment it seems to be down though.

  Posted 17 May 07 in Railsers

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  How Do You Test New Features?

  I too would like to hear how other people develop their software.  I don't think that we use the most efficient system around, but at least with SVN we don't have to worry about working over each other.  Before we got the SVN up and running right it was very much like using walkie-talkies, "I'm working on an ajax updater, over!"  "Alright, lemme update the file then grab it, over!"  "Roger that, over!"

  I've worked with Lynn for a pretty long time now so we were used to it, but as iStalkr gets bigger and bigger and we get more team members, we found that SVN was the only real solution for us. 

  I almost wrote my own helpdesk software so that people who found bugs could submit them and we could work on them and respond.  But after using the google group, tangler, and my error logger that I wrote in whenever a major error is encountered, we've pretty much got the bases covered for bug tracking and fixing.

  As with all new features you add to a complex program though, we do have some stuff we'd never even thought to test (like international languages on the visual timeline).  We really depend on our users to catch things like that, and when they do find something like that wrong, it jumps to the top of the priority list, because the best way to get users to tell us something they see wrong is to fix it as fast as possible so they see that we do care about their concerns.  I think companies like Microsoft have really hurt software developers in that regard because many people don't see the point of reporting something that no-one is going to do anything about.

  Lynn tells me I need to promote our stuff more, so if you're interested in iStalkr you can find the tangler group  here.

  Posted 15 May 07 in Beta Testers

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  Support

  You should see icons.  If you just signed up give it a little while to parse through your feeds.  We are working on ways to make that faster, but it's pretty hard to query 2000+ feeds quickly.  I'm also working on when you first sign up it prioritizes your feeds to be done first, but right now thats only in the planning phase.

  Posted 15 May 07 in iStalkr Feedback