Aidan's comments

Aidan | 13 years ago | on: CashFlow forecasting for small businesses and freelancers

This looks fantastic! Cash flow has been a major pain point for me, and quite an unexpected one with a rapidly growing apparel company (https://www.kigu.me).

We've been managing this using a spreadsheet but tracking loan repayments, stock purchases, postage, cost of sale and salaries as well as picking a useful scale (daily vs weekly) has been a real challenge.

I can't wait for an invite.

Aidan | 13 years ago | on: The Gmail Zero project: commitment device for Inbox Zero

Gmail's Archive function is (or at least was, 8 years ago) its best feature! If you're not using it, you're Doing It Wrong.

If you think of your inbox as a to-do list (where the most basic task is "read this"), then the most common pattern ITDBG (In The Days Before Gmail) for managing your to-do was using read/unread as your done/todo flags.

This was annoying; when reading an email that can't be actioned right away you'd have to go back and mark it as unread. Trivial, but it always felt like there was a better way.

When Gmail launched with it's Archive feature, it was definitely an "ah-hah!" moment. Now the read/unread flags had no hidden meaning, and your to-do list was simply whatever your saw in your inbox. When you action an email, away to the archive it goes.

Reaching inbox-zero is a gloriously satisfying moment. Why yes ... I WILL read some google news.

Aidan | 14 years ago | on: What is Symfony2?

I used CakePHP exclusively for many years, wrote several popular articles and contributed several components. I stopped baking primarily because I grew tired and frustrated with the community more than anything else.

CakePHP is the only open source project I was involved with where the core developers mailing list was private, new major versions were developed in private repos, and inline documentation was banned (because "inline code comments often go out of date").

It's a critical realisation that often the health of a community is more important than the product itself.

Aidan | 15 years ago | on: HiredNext v2.0 released

It's a cool idea and I think you're on the right track, but the interface leaves a lot to be desired: a) Most of this information is on LinkedIn, where's the integration? b) Not everyone lives in the USA, why would you impose that on your users? c) The edit resume interface is cludgy to the point of being unusable in Chrome.
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