Kalzumeus
Kalzumeus — The What, The Why, and a bit of The When
Picture this: you’re a young doctor, 32, recently married to your med school sweetheart. Life is pretty hectic, what with being constantly tied to a beeper, carrying a cellphone so you and your wife can murmur sweet nothings in each others ears when not on call, and you having all the distractions of normal every [...]
Programming Productivity Up By 10%… Yowza
I have tried expressing my love for Direct Access before. Really, its hard to describe until you’ve tried it. However, Andrea was smart enough to include an automatic logging feature in the newest version, which demonstrates exactly how much time it saves you. (Memo to self: scrape user accounts for Kalzumeus, generate similar ROI-proving eyecandy, [...]
Spending Money, Incurring Headaches
Kalzumeus is getting to the point where I want to start periodic deployments to the Internets to test it (yes, yes, that DOES mean I’ll be able to announce it publicly, sometime this month if development doesn’t hit snags), so I went shopping for a hosting service. I eventually settled on TextDrive, which appears to [...]
Ranking For An Arbitrary Organic Search Query
This was posted on May 30th, 2007, Japan time. If it is after June 5th where you are, I predict that I’m pretty high on Google for the search arbitrary organic search query. I know this mostly by construction — I looked at the results before writing this post, observed that the competition is very [...]
April Stats
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Oh, yeah, April happened. The capsule summary: week-long holidays like Easter hurt like crazy — I had exactly one sale during Holy Week. We’re also fast approaching the end of the school year and I can feel orders slowing down quite a bit from [...]
Out With The Old, In With The New (Buttons)
I have been thinking of how to create application buttons for Kalzumeus in a pretty Web 2.0-ish style and, on the recommendation of several BoSers, bought Axialis Icon Workshop. To test it out, I decided to redo my sort of frumpy Buy Now! and Download Free Trial buttons for Bingo Card Creator, and see if [...]
I Love It When People Fix My Problems
One feature that I had in mind for the 1.1 release of Kalzumeus (does it even make sense to have a 1.1 version of a webapp? Well, you get the general drift) was the ability to send a real, honest-to-God postal mail in an automated fashion. It is a requirement with legal significance for some [...]
Kalzumeus Hits 25% Feature Complete
Well, OK, thats a little optimistic. Its certainly 25% *feature* complete but its not 25% of the way ready to actually have users. The interface still needs to be integrated, for example (I have functional skeletons up for most of it but they are too ugly to ever show to people, even if they do [...]
Kalzumeus Has Logins!
I felt absolutely miserable this morning (word to the wise: sukiyaki curry is NOT for the faint of stomach) and took half the day off. After I got home I was feeling rather useless, so I decided to bang out some Ruby code. And bang I did — apparently I covered something like 600 lines in 3 [...]
Getting Somewhere On Kalzumeus
I finally got some time today to sit down and have a coding session. The program can’t be more than, oh, 5% of the way ready yet, but I’m feeling that I’m starting to get my head around most of the core Rails concepts. Much more code is actually sticking to the screen and its [...]
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