New year resolution #2: start an open source project
Posted on Friday, July 30th, 2010 at 5:45 am under Geek stuff.
OK, my first new year resolution didn’t go very far, and partly the reason is that for the last few months I moved my attention to “resolution #2: start an open source project”.
The project is called “Flexo” and is a time tracker application for N900 written in C++/Qt, you can read more about it here. I started it to learn something about the environment in which I work every day (and where I hardly have the chance to get anything concrete done), and also to reacquaint myself with that old passion of mine, programming. It’s been lots of fun and working on it reminded me why I got in this business in the first place.
I was also quite pleased with the tools offered by Nokia for the purpose, although still a bit rough around the edges they are very usable and well designed (and they work on Mac, although you need to jump through a few hoops to set everything up). There is plenty of links and blog posts out there in case you are interested, so I won’t get started here.
I wish I could work on it more, but “new year resolution #3″ (more like “new decade resolution”) is approaching fast and won’t leave me much time to do anything else…
August 19th, 2010 at 10:41 am
I really like this app, but it misses one important feature.
Why not store the check-in and check-out times in the calendar? This way users can register their “office” hours automatically and easily check the hours on their paycheck with the hours in the calendar.
You can create a separate calendar in Maemo that keeps track of these hours. Users can also enrich the data with relevant information of their workday. Synchronizing the calendar with Outlook is easy.
Also, when storing the workhours, users must be able to generate a summary for a given period (a week, a month, a year, etc..). When a user generates a summary there must be a way to deduct breaks from the total hours.
Just my 2 cents, hope you’ll continue the good work!
August 19th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Thanks! A good suggestion indeed, I’ll look into it.
August 29th, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Nice app! But after update, when pressing settings – it shuts down.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:54 am
Thanks for the bug report. This is fixed in flexo 0.2.11, hitting extras-devel as I write this.