Maybe I should tell coworkers at our company about Basecamp. Looks like a more useful mix of features than MS Project... That one is so useless and complicated, that small projects use Excel Sheets instead! What about free software? Any project management recommendations?
Blogging does work. ;) The reason I found out about this app is because I was reading Signal vs. Noise which I had found via somebody somewhere...
Update: Argh! Now that I read some more on their site:
Ruby on Rails is the web application framework we developed and open sourced in 2004. Basecamp was the first Ruby on Rails application and Ta-da List and Backpack were then also built on Rails.
I can’t wait for my Ruby on Rails books to arrive. There must still be lots of good software to build on the web... The thing that saddens me is that the free software spirit is disappearing. What if you don’t like Basecamp? There’s no way to easily change it. The infrastructure is available, and that’s good. But all of it would be better.
I wonder, can they not compete on service alone (hosting, backup, customization)?
That reminds me of Gmail again: Is there a way to pay them money and get rid of the ads? Sure, getting rid of the ads using my user CSS works just as well, but I’m wondering about business plans.
And that brings me back to Google and Mac users. On my iBook, I wanted to make Gmail my default mail application. I tried downloading the Gmail Notifier, but could not unpack it. I assume that they’re using the new compressed disk image format that only OSX Tiger (1.4) knows about. I still use Panther (1.3). Not quite e1f’s problem, but similar enough.
make Gmail my default mail application
Update: When I closed down the computer yesterday, I noticed that one of the Gmail Notifier downloads must have worked, because the image had been mounted and a warning message was visible. I installed it now, and it seems to have worked.
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