Fun Little App: Summizer

I got sick of having to manually search Summize all the time. I wanted a way to FOLLOW a trend, not just remember to search it constantly. But no one offers this.

So I did what any programmer would do, I did it myself.

So now there is Summizer

It’s real simple, doesn’t track what you search/follow, and is fun!

It was designed for the iPhone but works fine on a traditional browser.

playlist.maxfm.fm Project Launch

A couple months in the making, the latest Mustache project is finally launched.

Today playlist.maxfm.fm is officially official. The idea of the project is to allow 100.5 MAXFM’s (a Hampton Roads rock radio station) listeners to program the station. 

Users can sign up and create their own playlists from the library of songs that MAXFM has the rights to air. Users pick up to twenty songs and submit them. MAXFM administrators review the playlists and broadcast them giving full attribution.

It was a pleasure to work on a project that gives power and respect back to the customer, and Mustache applauds MAXFM for understanding that their listeners make their business. 

Mustache Success @ RailsConf

This year’s RailsConf was a freaking blast. The talks were great, the sponsors did a great job getting people ‘mingling’, and my Mustache invasion was a bigger hit than I’d thought it would be. Peter Cooper wasn’t able to make it, but even he was in on the action.

Here are some choice shots:

Chris Wanstrath keeps his promise and wears it during his talk

Mr. Adam Keys liked his.

Even the MacBooks were wearing them

Mustache at RailsConf

I’ll be landing at 11am in Portland for our yearly meetup in RailsConf. I can’t wait to hang out and talk to everyone again. I’m bringing some goodies with me to hand out.

Uploaded with plasq’s Skitch! 

That’s a real fake mustache. You can peel it off and wear it! 

Announcing Freelancer

There are a lot of tools out there to help freelancers. Backpack, Highrise, Wordpress, etc. Sure, they’re not expensive, but do you use all their features? Maybe you just need a few of them, but because they’re spread out across multiple applications, you have to pay for multiple apps.

What if all the features you REALLY needed as a freelancer were in one single application. And what if this app hosted your website too! Whoa! 

 It’s like a freelancer’s toolkit.

 That’s what I started on this weekend. And its actually hosting the Mustache site right now! 

 Freelancer is going to be an open source freelancer’s toolkit. Here are some of the features it has now:

•  Single level page editing for the website
• Client tracking
• Projects for clients
• Assets for projects
• Showcase page to show your clients mockups or designs

Freelancer is really rough right now. Its working well for the Mustache site right now, but the other features need to be fleshed out a bit.

 If you’re interested in contributing to Freelancer, its on Github. Go fork it and help make it better!

 I think this could end up being a really cool project that could be a really nice toolkit for new freelancers.

 Repository: http://github.com/maddox/freelancer/tree/master