1DayLater - The Blog

Morten Kombat! Security lockdown

The time has come to nail down the OAuth part of the 1DayLater API, which is coming along rather nicely. Morten Fangel, the veritable OAuth boffin is landing in bonny Newcastle on Monday and together we will take on this specialist task.

could you resist the temptation?

Being a hospitable bunch, he’s staying with me and Paul in the family home for a few nights, and we’ll no doubt subject the man to some highly cultural evenings… That is if Beer, Curries and a ragtag of good mates counts as cultural!

We’ll write about the social funtimes, and the technical progress next week. If anyone is interested in meeting Morten before buggers off back to Denmark, we’ll (probably) be free on Tuesday and Wednesday evening next week - get in touch!

A peek into 1DayLater

Me, Paul, our Dad, and local coder Peter Beckwith have all been using the 1DayLater prototype since January and we’ve decided to give you a little peek into our working lives. We habitually enter how we spend our time into 1DayLater like so:

“1h30, The Great North Run Project, Working on visualisations”

It takes about 5 seconds to do, and we typically make 5-10 entries a day. It might not look like much, but we’ve already created useful analyses of our data in the forms of activity charts and accurate invoices (for once in my life!). Using only this simple data I can show how me, Paul and our Dad have different working lifestyles:

• I’ve worked many hours on a big orange project (1DayLater), but also have a few other steady side-projects
• Paul’s been working on a pink project (1DayLater again) and takes on occasional work when he needs to
• Our Dad works on many projects in tandem, some phasing in and out, and some are steady (the brown and green ones)

This early version only measures time spent, but the upcoming release (end of August) will deal with business miles and expenditure too! I really can’t wait to show what we have in the pipeline!

The Brothers King

“The Brothers King” are me and (not surprisingly) my awesome brother Paul. We’re creating a new start-up company called 1DayLater that will help small businesses and freelancers be more awesome and profitable!

This blog will chart our journey in creating the new company, and at the same time explore the research we do for the company, its people and the technology we explore. Wish us luck!