Quote: Planned Learning
Posted on July 10, 2006
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Once you have learned to plan, you have to plan to learn.”
I can definitely get with that.
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Posted on July 10, 2006
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The Ruby on Rails Triad
Posted on July 9, 2006
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Finally, my Rails Recipes hardcover has finally arrived! It is everything I was hoping for too, jam packed full of good solutions to common rails problems. I’ve been really waiting for a book like this on rails for a looong while. What I would really love to see is a Rails Cookbook from Oreilly only because I know they pack much for recipes in those books.
So now my Rails “Trifecta” so-to-speak is complete. I have Rails Recipes, Ruby for Rails and the Agile Web Development with Rails now. I didn’t really like the Rails for Ruby book quite as much, perhaps cause it is less about Rails as it is on Ruby. Nothing the Pix Axe book doesn’t cover in detail. Even so, I know these 3 together will play a huge part in getting the majority of the remaining features finished for SugarStats.
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Posted on July 9, 2006
Filed Under Business, CSS/XHTML, Daily Thoughts, Design, Ruby on Rails, SugarStats, Tech, Web
Web 2.0 for your health? SugarStats: Online Bloodsugar Management
Posted on July 7, 2006
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After a few hours setting up the default page, I’m happy to announce that www.sugarstats.com is finally up. What is SugarStats? Well if you’ve kept up with the blog I’ve dropped a few hints as to the ruby on rails project I’ve been working on. I guess the best way would be to take the description off the website:
“SugarStats makes it simple for you to easily manage, monitor and share your blood sugar glucose levels online so that you can take better control of your diabetes.”
I’ve been working on SugarStats for the past few months with an excellent team and it has been really great. I initially built it just as an application for myself as I was just not liking most of the other options available. After seeing the great interest others had shown for it I have since been working on bringing SugarStats to the next step into turning it into a full blown, scalable web application for the masses.
As to take a step away from the typical diabetic management software, SugarStats isn’t meant to keep every minute detail about diabetic management but more so focus on blood sugar management, the elements that affect blood sugar and offering the most essential information and trends in a easy to use interface. The main aspects of SugarStats are going to be:
- Tracking blood sugar levels, medication intake, food consumption and physical activity
- Viewable trends, graphs and essential statistics over several different timeframes
- An easy to use interface to this information from any modern web browser and a number of mobile devices such as PDA’s and mobile phones.
- Easily share this information with your friends, family and health care professional
- Along with many more features planned for the initial public release.
As the online diabetic management market is practically non-existent, this is going to be a huge step. Some other great news is we’re talking with interested investors who see value in our vision and hopefully we can create a strong partnership to further rapid development.
So I’ll be writing about the startup, development and deployment process of SugarStats over the next few months here, stay tuned.
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Posted on July 7, 2006
Filed Under Business, CSS/XHTML, Daily Thoughts, Mobile Tech, Ruby on Rails, SugarStats, Tech
RailsConf 2006 - Dave Thomas Keynote Video
Posted on July 5, 2006
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Man I wish I could have been at RailsConf in the states, but I’m really going to try to make the RailsConf Euro in Sept. In the meantime, I found some great video up that covers Dave Thomas’ keynote speach.
They are working on getting some other video up I hear as well along with some Ipod versions so you can take it on the go. Really good speech with some great ideas, especially his talk on deployment. Man, awesome.
Check out the RailsConf 2006 keynote video here
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Posted on July 5, 2006
Filed Under Business, Daily Thoughts, Productivity, Ruby on Rails, Tech, Web
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