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Re: SOPA Solution: Block Congress | Programming, NaPerProMo | Lou Franco: code, apps, and writings

Lou Franco — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:21:21 -0000

They may not use the internet much, but their staffers do. The staffers write the actual legislation and advise their bosses (perhaps writing their floor speeches as well). Your point about not knowing about the Internet actually applies to everything they do -- they don't know about almost anything they write legislation about -- the Internet is not a special case. Getting to the staffers, lobbyists, media, their constituents, etc is much more effective than getting to them -- even the best of them can only use judgement to balance the multiple influencers -- not actually know what they are talking about.

I don't mean this to be cynical -- I actually don't think my representative's time is best used personally understanding the minutia of the Internet. I want them to choose good advisers, seek input from experts and stakeholders, understand their biases, ask a lot of questions, and have good judgement.

Re: The never-ending finite loop

Lou Franco — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:16:36 -0000

I'll probably get this wrong, but run it backwards (46 chars)

int i,x[99];for(x[0]=i=98;x[0];i--)i*=!++x[i];

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:07:34 -0000

I started to write this feature this week -- hoping to finish it for release by mid December. Thanks for the suggestion

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:36:15 -0000

Unfortunately, the application doesn't offer a way. Does the iPhone offer a migration tool to bring your apps to the new device? I would hope that it would also bring the data -- Habits uses a SQLITE database file in the standard application data directory -- it's done in the completely Cocoa Touch standard way, so if they have any migration, it might just work.

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:34:09 -0000

Thanks for the report. I will take a look and try to get a fix out soon. Do you know if you are using the latest version?

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:50:21 -0000

I have fixed this and submitted to Apple about a week ago. I hope that they will approve it soon. Thank you for reporting this -- I am very sorry for the inconvenience.

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:19:51 -0000

The slowness caused springboard to terminate, I believe. I did use a cache and a better date calc algorithm. The problem was that I introduced sorting, which was based on next date which was calculated each time. While running it in the debugger, springboard doesn't terminate slow starting apps. Anyway, luckily I have an extensive unit test suite so updating this code was pretty safe and easy.

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:13:52 -0000

Yes. Please feel free to elaborate.

Help is only on the main screen, right? That's my intention and what I see on my version.

Will fix line spacing. I am really trying to keep the "How often" list simple. I have been thinking of adding an advanced or custom option, but I really like how it's just a single tap now for simple cases.

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:21:38 -0000

Thank you for reporting this. I figured it out based on your information and uploaded version 1.2 to Apple this evening. I am very sorry for the inconvenience.

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:09:27 -0000

Great suggestion. A new version is being approved by Apple (should be any day now). I will put this on the list for the next version, though.

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:55:45 -0000

Interesting idea. I see that Weightbot does that for similar reasons. I will add it to the list for 1.2 -- 1.1 is in the Apple process, so it might be a couple of months before 1.2 is released

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:06:46 -0000

I could do it like Things (off by default, but with a Settings entry to turn it on). I see what you are saying. I am tying up the current release to be done this week -- but I can add it for 1.2 (I think end of Feb)

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:07:04 -0000

Habits 1.1 is coming out next week with "Every Quarter", "Every Year" and a few others. With Habits, I am trying to keep it loose -- not exact -- which I think is better in a calendar (if you need to do it on an exact day).

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:10:58 -0000

Ok, I will try to get that into the release coming up. Thanks for the suggestion

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:28:53 -0000

Pausing is always retroactive to the last date the habit was done. Also, you can unpause at any time just by marking the habit done.

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:47:15 -0000

I wanted to do that, but Apple does not allow a 3rd party application to badge the application unless it's already running. So I can put the number of habits that are due right before you exit, but the next day it wouldn't change until you ran Habits (which kind of defeats the purpose).

Apple has indicated that they might lift this restriction in the future (although that was in September and they haven't) -- and if they do -- I will definitely implement it.

Related to this restriction, I also cannot alert (like the Calendar app does) while Habits isn't running.

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:17:06 -0000

Absolutely, some visual representation of history is coming in the next version. Thanks for your comments.

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:05:14 -0000

Good idea -- I will put it on the list of features.

Re: Is Google App Engine Ready for Prime Time? | Sachin Rekhi

Lou Franco — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:21:11 -0000

I agree that GAE isn't ready yet. I'm not as concerned with the lock-in, but for GAE to be compelling to me, they need to implement 100% of the infrastructure I need. Main thing that they are missing: recurring payments in Checkout.

I posted more thoughts here:

http://www.atalasoft.com/cs...

Re: The Best iPhone GTD App

Lou Franco — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:57:06 -0000

I use Things, which I like very much -- intuitive and supports my GTD process. To complement it, I developed my own app, Habits, which is for recurring tasks with no exact due date -- things like going to the gym every 2-3 days and cleaning up a little every other day. Habits helps you keep track of how well you are doing them over time.

If you are interested, take a look: http://loufranco.com/habits

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:17:08 -0000

Hi, this is Lou Franco (the author of Habits). If you have any questions, post them here.

Re: Discussion

Lou Franco — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:38:31 -0000

Hi, my name is Lou Franco, and I'm the author of Habits. If you have any questions, you can post them here or use my Contact page.

Re: A solution for the “send email to relatives when I die” problem

Lou Franco — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:21:14 -0000

It should also send one to you where you don't need to answer, but can veto.

Re: The iPhone as a GTD Swiss Army Chainsaw

Lou Franco — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:24:23 -0000

I've been using Things on my iPhone, which I love.

I used to run my GTD off of a homemade web based system -- but Things pretty much does everything I need. One thing that it didn't have was a concept of a recurring event that didn't need to be done at an exact time, but something I wanted to do consistently (go to the gym every 2 to 3 days, call Mom every week, clean up every other day) -- not only did I want to be reminded, but I also wanted to see how I was doing over time.

I had this in my homemade system, so I decided to port to iPhone -- I call it Habits, and if you want to see more check out my site (http://www.loufranco.com/ha...

Re: Cubicle Muses - iPhone Development Flowchart

Lou Franco — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:19:49 -0000

I really wish I found something like this a few months ago. I finally finished all of these steps the hard way (didn't start to join program until after app was done). It was an excruciating few weeks while waiting for Apple.