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Re: Rate my tiny web app: my-foc.us

#4

Sorry, I will fix that in about 45 seconds.

Fixed: that warning message just had to be removed. Creating login accounts works. If you get the source code from github, read the README for a one line change to enable email new account authentication (I disabled this so people could try it instantly, with no email handshake).

Re: Rate my tiny web app: my-foc.us

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Unfortunately in such a crowded market as 'to-do' lists or similar, your site doesn't tell me why it is so special, or what it does.

You don't have a demo, and you make me sign-up to get an intro.

I like the personal style of your writing on the right hand side of the page, and it makes me want to know more, but unfortunately, you haven't provided enough insight into what makes your project special to take me that extra step.

Re: Rate my tiny web app: my-foc.us

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Unfortunately in such a crowded market as 'to-do' lists or similar, your site doesn't tell me why it is so special, or what it does. You don't have a demo, and you make me sign-up to get an intro. I like the personal style of your writing on the right hand side of the page, and it makes me want to know more, but unfortunately, you haven't provided enough insight into what makes your project special to take me that ex…

If you are a programmer, clone the code from github.

You are right about a demo, but this is a small project that I really wrote for myself, and shared it (and the code) as an after thought. This is really a 'scratch my own itch' project, like my cookingspace.com site that I use to track my vitamin K input - I could not find any other recipe sites that would do that for me when I wrote cookingspace.

Anyway, thanks for the idea: I'll add a PDF download link tomorrow with screenshots and a page or two of text describing why I did not like any of the other 'getting stuff done' sites.

Re: Rate my tiny web app: my-foc.us

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Unfortunately in such a crowded market as 'to-do' lists or similar, your site doesn't tell me why it is so special, or what it does. You don't have a demo, and you make me sign-up to get an intro. I like the personal style of your writing on the right hand side of the page, and it makes me want to know more, but unfortunately, you haven't provided enough insight into what makes your project special to take me that ex…

If you are a programmer, clone the code from github. You are right about a demo, but this is a small project that I really wrote for myself, and shared it (and the code) as an after thought. This is really a 'scratch my own itch' project, like my cookingspace.com site that I use to track my vitamin K input - I could not find any other recipe sites that would do that for me when I wrote cookingspace. Anyway, thanks fo…

I should have added in my post: this really is a simple app: uses a bit of Javascript/AJAX to basically keep everything on one page. Drag a focus to the top of the focus list and then you just see the todos for that focus. Click on a focus or a todo title to edit in place. Drag and drop todos and focuses to reorder. Edit notes for any todo in place.

Really simple, this took me about 6 hours to code up. (It is a few hundred lines of Ruby with a few HTML templates, and two CSS files, one for browsers and one for cellphones.)

Re: Rate my tiny web app: my-foc.us

#9

You're storing passwords in plain-text. No-no. May I recommend one of the following: http://github.com/thoughtbot/clearance http://github.com/binarylogic/authlogic http://github.com/plataformatec/devise

Right you are, thanks. I'll fix that. I'll probably leave the email code as-is and add a random salt for each account, run crypt and just save the salt and hash for each user.

Re: Rate my tiny web app: my-foc.us

#10
yes a demo as others would be great !

Until that is done , the rest can use user : test@test.com pass : test To see what it does !

Also when i reorder the list ,it would be nice if the edit wouldnt pop up !

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