My company sells an enterprise-level web-based requisition tool called eRequester, which integrates with most major accounting software. It's definitely geared towards large or mid-size companies, both in scope and price.
The Seattle monorail will go from everywhere to everywhere, at least after it gets off the ground (so to speak). The initial Green Line "only" servers Ballard, Magnolia, Queen Anne, Belltown, Downtown, SODO, West Seattle, which is quite a big chunk of Seattle neighborhoods. You have to start somewhere, and that's a damn good start. It won't help me, I live on Capitol Hill, but as long as work continues, we will eventually have a city-wide rapid transit solution (which we are way overdue for, as the vast majority of Seattlites will tell you).
Yeah, it doesn't serve the suburbs or the airport, but it's designed to ease congestion in-city. Even light rail won't get to SeaTac.
The Stranger (Seattle's alternative weekly) has had great (albeit slightly manic) monorail coverage.
As a web developer with my own business, I was used to working 10-12 hours a week and making just enough to pay for rent, bills, toys, and go out drinking every night.
Then the bubble burst, so to speak, and I found myself working zero hours a week and earning same.
Surprisingly, work has picked up considerable in the past few months, and I'm making pretty much what I was making this time last year, but now I have to work normal hours (normal hours being 10:30-5:00 with an hour for lunch). I suppose a healthier work ethic would be good for me, but why be stressed out when you can coast?
The lack of a decent web-accessible calendar is what prompted me to write my own a few years back. My problem with what's out there, however, isn't the lack of features, it's that usually there are too many. I know you can't please all the people all the time, and if you're looking for a broad audience, you have to build an app for the "average" user.
While I do use my custom calendar for business engagements, it's mostly for my bustling social life. I will most likely never use a third party web calendar myself, but here's what I like about my own in particular:
The HTML table that displays the actual calendar (all days for the current month) is small enough so that scrolling isn't necessary, but large enough so that a brief blurb for each event on each day can be displayed (on mine the max is ~5 events per day before the size of the cell is affected).
The people in my address book can be of two types: those who also have a login to my calendar, and those who don't. For any one event I can select people from my address book that are involved in that event, and seperately I can choose from a much shorter list those I want to share the event with (it will also automatically show up on their calendar). So, if there's a dinner party at A's house and B, C, and D will also be there, I can designate that this party is an event with A, B, C, and D, but then I can also share the event with X, Y, and Z. That way X, Y, and Z will know that the party is happening the next time they check the calendar. I can also share contacts with other registerred users.
Any event or contact can be editted by the person who posted it or anyone who it has been shared with.
I know most people hate popup windows in web apps, but I use popup windows for all additions (adding/editting a contact, adding/editting an event, etc.), and the main browser window for displaying information. When I have my calendar open (which is pretty much all day) it never has to be refreshed unless I add an event that warrants a refresh.
No graphics! But I can choose between several different purty color schemes.
On a semi-related note, does anyone know where I might be able to find a script with the logic to figure out when those wacky holidays like thanksgiving, easter, etc. fall? I know it'd be really straightforward, but I haven't been able to find an explicit definition of how those holidays fall. Yeah, I guess I haven't really looked that hard...
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My company sells an enterprise-level web-based requisition tool called eRequester, which integrates with most major accounting software. It's definitely geared towards large or mid-size companies, both in scope and price.
Yeah, it doesn't serve the suburbs or the airport, but it's designed to ease congestion in-city. Even light rail won't get to SeaTac.
The Stranger (Seattle's alternative weekly) has had great (albeit slightly manic) monorail coverage.
As a web developer with my own business, I was used to working 10-12 hours a week and making just enough to pay for rent, bills, toys, and go out drinking every night.
Then the bubble burst, so to speak, and I found myself working zero hours a week and earning same.
Surprisingly, work has picked up considerable in the past few months, and I'm making pretty much what I was making this time last year, but now I have to work normal hours (normal hours being 10:30-5:00 with an hour for lunch). I suppose a healthier work ethic would be good for me, but why be stressed out when you can coast?
I like contests.
2001-03-21 12:34:56
I will give my t-shirt to my dog.
While I do use my custom calendar for business engagements, it's mostly for my bustling social life. I will most likely never use a third party web calendar myself, but here's what I like about my own in particular:
- The HTML table that displays the actual calendar (all days for the current month) is small enough so that scrolling isn't necessary, but large enough so that a brief blurb for each event on each day can be displayed (on mine the max is ~5 events per day before the size of the cell is affected).
- The people in my address book can be of two types: those who also have a login to my calendar, and those who don't. For any one event I can select people from my address book that are involved in that event, and seperately I can choose from a much shorter list those I want to share the event with (it will also automatically show up on their calendar). So, if there's a dinner party at A's house and B, C, and D will also be there, I can designate that this party is an event with A, B, C, and D, but then I can also share the event with X, Y, and Z. That way X, Y, and Z will know that the party is happening the next time they check the calendar. I can also share contacts with other registerred users.
- Any event or contact can be editted by the person who posted it or anyone who it has been shared with.
- I know most people hate popup windows in web apps, but I use popup windows for all additions (adding/editting a contact, adding/editting an event, etc.), and the main browser window for displaying information. When I have my calendar open (which is pretty much all day) it never has to be refreshed unless I add an event that warrants a refresh.
- No graphics! But I can choose between several different purty color schemes.
On a semi-related note, does anyone know where I might be able to find a script with the logic to figure out when those wacky holidays like thanksgiving, easter, etc. fall? I know it'd be really straightforward, but I haven't been able to find an explicit definition of how those holidays fall. Yeah, I guess I haven't really looked that hard...