1DayLater - The Blog

Stimulating Software Innovation

Attention all North-East developers, dreamers and entreprenuers

Here’s a quick heads up about another fine event hosted by our good friends at Sunderland Software City. We would urge anyone with the seed of a software idea or simply wanting to break into the software scene to check this out. 

Dates: Friday 23^rd April & Wednesday 2^nd June
Venue: North East BIC, Sunderland
Cost: Free

The Blurb

Stimulating Software Innovation is a ONE day, fully funded programme designed to give an up to the minute view of the software industry and the potential of future developments.

This interactive session is ideal for anyone wishing to explore the software world in more detail as it not only looks at current trends but also provides a valuable insight into the constantly developing nature of software.

An excellent vehicle for continuous professional development, this session is a must for anyone looking to break into the software industry.

The event is part of Sunderland Software City, an initiative to support and develop the software industry in North East England.

To apply for a place or for more information contact Sam Fairless on 0191 516 6087 or email Samantha.fairless@ne-bic.co.uk (quote ref: SSI-F).

/End Blurb

Seriously though with a price of absolutely nothing and the chance to make all sorts of great connections in the region, what more could you ask for. Get those dates in your diary!

Paul

EDIT: ps. updates to come on 1DayLater phone development very shortly

PCmag’s ‘best free software of 2010’

I was just a gleam in my parents eyes when PCmag started up in 1982. For anyone who hasn’t heard of these guys, they are a well respected online computer magazine who were published monthly both in print and online till January 2009.

Now the magazine just has an online version, but still features reviews and previews of the latest hardware and software for the IT pro. Every year they run an article with the best free software of that year - and you can see what’s coming right?

Ah you guessed it, our own 1DayLater made the cut! And let me tell you it’s a proud day when we are featured alongside the likes of Picassa, Evernote and Dropbox (who we wrote about last year)

So a big thanks to everyone who helped us into this list - and for providing us with a great moment.

Help me find a word!

I need your help!

Part and parcel of being a programmer is that good naming conventions are important to us, hell, we often get riled up about it! Which is why I really need you to help me find the right term, right now… lest I die from madness

So, we’re working with Codeworks to create a custom reporting system to help them better explain how their time and resources are spent on their various clients. One of the things we realised is that there is a massive difference between the man-hours dedicated to a client and the amount of time the client actually receives.

Imagine you’re a company being assisted by Codeworks and you have a 4 hour “session” with their team. Fred, Jimmy and Ian are present for different parts of the session, like so:

While there are 7 man-hours put into the session, the session is only 4 hours long. This “session” is what I’m having a hard time naming - it needs to be abstract enough to apply to many scenarios (meeting, conference, hackathon etc)… so far I’m calling this overlap time but I know it’s not right!!! If anyone can help me I will be forever grateful.

*sigh*

The pie’s the limit

Our new 1DayLater pie charts are almost cooked!

Imagine a pie…now imagine how it’s curvatious pastry dough shell covers a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Picture the pie in a variety of sizes, ranging from bite-size to family feast…mmm pie.

Ok, so that’s a good description of an actual pie and I’m starting to get hungry. But our new 1DayLater pie-charts are set to be no different, they’re just filled with yummy sweet user information instead!

They will automatically grow or shrink to represent the total time logged each month, and have a nifty roll-over feature, much like the current 1DayLater graphs which our users are familiar with.

Individual months can even be drilled into and we are considering a print out option for the near future.

At this stage it’s not clear whether these new visuals will join our free, premium or corporate feature set. But wherever they eventually land we expect them to be a worthy addition, making month-by-month analysis a breeze.

We’ll keep you updated on any roll outs, including our soon-to-be-released phone and desktop applications! Can’t wait to share more news on those

Speak soon

Paul