Let me know if you’ve seen or heard from him!

–Ryan

This book could not have been released at a better time. I’m currently working on an organization tools for Personal Trainers, Massage Therapists, Aerobic Instructors, and anyone else who provides Health and Fitness services. I’ve found that by following one of the maxims provided the the 37s, I’ve been able to maintain a great deal of momentum.

Getting Real: SAYING DONE!

This post boils down to not getting bogged down in the details. Make decisions, evaluate feedback, wash, rinse, repeat. Simple to say, hard to do. I’ve been agonizing over a simple calendar system. In particular, recurring events. Here’s the story of the feature:

Say a trainer works out with a client every Monday at 6:00am. The trainer should be able to enter an event and then specify that it is recurring. The event should then be generated in the database. Here’s the rub, how long should it recurr? 1 month, 3 months, 6 months? After trying to figure out how to do this, and fearing a database table of event filling up, I decided to say DONE!

The trainer will specify the recurring period from a drop down that will go up to 1 year. So, the appointment example above will populate in the database and in the system until March 2007, if it were entered today.

I finished the code a few hours ago, and my wife is now using the feature! I could have spent hours trying to figure out some way to be clever, instead the feature is delivered, and I’ll have feedback shortly… How cool is that?

–Ryan

The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up a tremendous head of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications already in production, Rails is destined to continue making significant inroads in 2006. Simply put, Ruby on Rails is an open source tool that gives you the advantage of rapidly creating great web applications backed by SQL databases to keep up with the speed of the web. And with the release of Rails 1.0 kicking off the new year, there’s never been a better time to climb aboard.

Check out their article, Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development with Mac OS X, on their developer site.