Posted by Jacopo Murador
Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:35:00 GMT
Paolo has just released a brand new widget. He has taken the Tobias Lukte’s super-simple-css-bars and has wrapped it in an helper following the rails-widgets way. You can take a look at the result here.
Besides the new widget, we’ve officially moved the rails-widgets project to Github. We’ve chosen Paolo’s Github account, given that he’s the real father of the project:
http://github.com/paolodona/rails-widgets
This change is due to the easy to use collaboration features provided by Github and… honestly, to a strange disappearance of the rails-widgets google group, which made us doubt a bit about it. Anyway our purpose is to involve as many people as possible to improve the project. So feel free to contribute, you just need to have a github account. Even a small comment or a snippet of code are more than welcome!
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Posted by Jacopo Murador
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:46:00 GMT
If you’re a reader of this blog you are probably wondering why we’ve been so quiet lately. A lot happened during the past month and a half.
As a company we’re doing pretty well, we doubled our revenues, we opened a new office in beautiful Verona (Italy) and we have substantially improved the way we deal with project management and development. We are very proud of the fact we’ve always been profitable even if we received no money from VCs or other investors, slowly but constantly growing our business.
What we’ve not been able to do is to stick to what we really wanted to do. When we started we had a goal: we wanted to develop our own web application and sell it as a service. But the hard reality is we are a self funding firm and we ended up only doing client work to pay the bills. We only did client work for two years. Even if we know a consultancy agency would love to find itself in our position, we aren’t happy at all with that. Honestly nobody of us is happy anymore. We haven’t been pursuing our dreams, we only have been working hard on things which haven’t helped us achieve aour goals. At the end of the second year of SeeSaw’s life we sadly had to admit that we weren’t what we were expected to be and this forced us to make some hard decisions.
This’s why now SeeSaw will change a lot.
Paolo decided to move to London with his beloved girlfriend. He’ll start a new adventure, new challenges, will meet new people and have new opportunities. In his heart a foreign experience is what he always wanted to do. If you’d like to keep in touch with him or you’re interested in his Tabnav/RailsWidgets plugin, please visit his blog or consider subscribing to his RSS feed.
Michele will continue doing Java and Ruby development. He has a couple of personal projects he’s working on, after taking deserved break. You’ll probably hear about it in a few months.
Last but not least there is me. I will keep the company running and will lead the new SeeSaw way. From now on SeeSaw will build the web application it has been founded for. It is a financial analysis application for small/medium sized companies that – imho – will revolutionize the way they manage their resources and assets. No more client work, just stuff that matters.
Keep in touch, the new season is here!
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Posted by Jacopo Murador
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:26:00 GMT
In the last two years we worked mainly with customers inherited from our previous freelance activity and the business card was a useless thin cardboard. But now that SeeSaw has entered into a new era (you will be able to read about it on this blog in the next days), the first item in our to-do list is business cards.
Well, our brand new business cards are just arrived from Moo.
But what do we expect from our business cards?
- They must be different and amaze those who get them
- Even when stumbled upon months later at the bottom of a drawer, they must bring to mind who we are. (Is there anything better than visual memory? ndr)
- And of course they need to provide contact information
Goal accomplished, what do you think?
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Posted by Paolo
Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:00:00 GMT
Hi guys, time is flying here and we’ve got a few more seats for next week’s Ruby On Rails Workshop.
This is a great opportunity to learn the great Rails 2.0 and understand how to be really effective and productive with this amazing framework! There are so many new juicy things we’re gonna cover I hardly can hide my excitement!!! This is definitely going to be our best workshop ever…
PS: If you’re a blogger or a group of people let us know, a discount may apply :)
Hope to see you there!
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Posted by Paolo
Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:47:00 GMT
From now on you can download and install the Rails Widgets Plugin from its Google Code Project.
To install use: script/plugin install http://rails-widgets.googlecode.com/svn/widgets
That’s the stable tag which will be constantly updated. If you feel brave you can also install it from the trunk: script/plugin install http://rails-widgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk or help us improve it.
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Posted by Paolo
Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:47:00 GMT
This morning I struggled a bit to find a decent encoding converter for osx… from time to time I get stuck on encoding issues so I wanted to have something ‘friendly’ to handle this kind of problems…
I found Cyclone based on Apple Text Encoding Converter (look for TEC) but it kept failing in some strange ways (It gave me weird messages about converters creation). After googling for a while I gave up. It seems there are no good-free-GUI alternatives on the net…
Sometimes the solution is closer than you think and the good old iconv rescued me in a snap:
[paolo@fingus]$ iconv -f UTF-16 -t UTF-8 utf16_file.txt > utf8_file.txt
you can list the available encodings with:
[paolo@fingus]$ iconv -l
The cool part is you can use it in conjunction with TextMate’s Filter Through Command feature thus enabling in-editor lightning-fast conversions.
The only missing part was discovering the original file’s encoding, in order to pass iconv the correct -f option. The not-so-reliable way I used was to open the file with Firefox and inspect the encoding using the View -> Character Encoding menu item.
That’s it, problem solved.
If you know better ways to do this… let me know!
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