gorn.ch

As some of you already know I'm working on timestimator in my spare time and on hackdays. It's a small tool that lets your team guess the time that will be necessary to accomplish a task. As I'm currently participating at the local.ch hackdays (thanks Liip and local to make this possible I'm really enjoying it :)) I implemented a few new features and deployed a working version again.

The main new features are related to groups. It's now possible to create your group and your team members can join it. Then outsiders won't see your tasks anymore which gives you some security (the code is not bug free so don't trust it too much, patches are welcome the project is on github). As I still have half a day left I will dig into python unit testing which I didn't take a look at so far and I really hate to work on untested projects.

Try it out, but you will need a google account since it's on AppEngine. For any bugs ideas and feature requests please drop me a note I'm happy to hear from you.

If You don't have a google account there is a small demo for you:

Hey there!

I'm still alive and I plan on blogging a little bit more in the future again.

So what did I do in the meantime? Well I started two new hobbies which are foosball and running so more sports for me! If you want to challenge me at a foosball table just drop me a note :) We got a nice Garlando Pro Champion in the office and I often hang out at Acapulco.

I'm still working on the local.ch frontend and we planed some cool features for this year. Check out their blog to stay up to date.

I also became a Certified Secure Web Developer having Sven as teacher was a lot of fun and he surely has skills! The course material itself was IMHO a bit low level I'd have enjoyed higher level hacking and/or more practical tipps. Still I got some stuff out of it and learned a lot while drinking some beer with the teacher afterwards ;)

Now the final reason that motivated me to do this blog post. I wanted to publish some slides which I produced last year together with chregu. We made a presentation about some advanced JS coding styles at the Liip TechDay and you might learn something from it. In the meantime I keep up my evangelizing about automated testing and proper JS code at Liip :)

Currently I'm playing around with Google App Engine and it's a lot of fun to learn some python. The first project is a task time estimator which should improve the estimation skills of me and my team. The idea is that you insert your tasks and give it your own estimation, then the other team members do their estimation too and in the end you can see the average estimation and the difference to the real time the task took to finish. Check it out here: http://timestimator.gorn.ch

Cheers and see you soon
---ebi