Active Reload: First Round of Invites Sent

February 28th, 2007 by justin

First Round of Invites Sent

1 comment on 423 words

We sent out the first round of invites yesterday. If nothing explodes, we'll send out a few more and try to wrap up this beta ASAP and get Lighthouse ready for the masses. The feedback we've received so far has been great, and we're squashing a lot of bugs. Amongst the bug smashing, we've also integrated some very cool features.

Search like a Googmaster

One of the great things about Google's search, is that it can be as straight forward as “Barack Obama” or as complex as “barack obama site:cnn.com filetype:pdf”, allowing you to really drill down on the information you want to see with very little hassle. We like this approach, and thus we've added it to Lighthouse.

We've been coding away all weekend at Lighthouse and have implemented tagging and a much improved search feature. Each of these features compliment the other.

Let's say you're tagging your Internet Explorer 6 problems ie6. Your IE problems lie in two areas: JavaScript and CSS. With that in mind, you're adding the tag javascript to the problems involving JavaScript and css to the problems involving CSS. Now, tags wouldn't be of much use if you couldn't find items based on a tagging scheme.

So, if I wanted to find all JavaScript problems involving IE 6 that were assigned to me, I'd perform a search like: responsible:me tagged:'ie6 javascript' state:open. When I perform that search, I get a human readable sentence letting me know what I just searched for:

“You searched for your open tickets tagged with ie and javascript.

A pretty handy feature that we look to expand upon in the coming months.

More invites coming soon

If you haven't already signed up for our notification, you should! We'll be sending out more invites in the coming days.

On a final note, we want to thank everyone for the warm welcome we received when we announced Active Reload. This is our first experience with starting a company and it's always good to start out on a positive note.

Discussion

rick said on February 28th

Fun with Lighthouse searches

Sorry, comments are closed for this article.

Subscribe to Tumblelog and Articles. Subscribe to Articles only.

Active Reload is a small company founded by Rick Olson and Justin Palmer. Rick is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team, while Justin is a member of the Prototype Javascript Library core team. Together we build rocking software with a focus on awesomeness.

Beautifully simple issue tracking. With a beautiful Mac-like interface, email and subversion integration, Lighthouse is the perfect project management tool. We took the suck out of issue tracking.
Web-based Subversion Interface Manage Subversion permissions and browse through your changesets and files with ease. Warehouse takes the complicated and mundane tasks of Subversion and makes it easy.
We've changed the way you manage your blog. With a beautiful interface, multi-site support, and infinitely extendible through plugins, Mephisto is a fresh take on what a blogging application should be.

May29

permalink

twitter bot

Read your tweets for messages prefixed with @foo and post to that user. http://pastie.caboo.se/65927

# Read tyler-durden's tweets for any messages starting with '@project-mayhem'
#
#   $ ruby twitter_bot.rb tyler-durden project-mayhem my-password
#
# Stores the last modified and highest id in a yaml file in the pwd by the anme of 'twitter_bot.cache'
# Should block against dupes and be easy against twitter's servers

May17

permalink

Displaying nice relative dates

<%= relative_time(Time.now) %>
# today
<%= relative_time(1.day.ago) %>
# yesterday
<%= relative_time(1.day.from_now) %>
# tomorrow
<%= relative_time_span([Time.now, 5.days.from_now]) %>
# May 17th - 22nd

— relative_time_helpers rails plugin

May16

permalink

Discussing a Feature Removal

Rick:  no more lightbox?
Justin:  no, I banished it because it was useless the way it was being used.  
Rick:  ha, it was cool man
Justin:  yeah, Zune music sharing is cool too.
Rick:  touche

May10

Scrobbler: Last.fm for Ruby —Ruby Library for accessing the AudioScrobbler web service.
permalink