What Is The Character Of Your Company?
That may sound like a silly question at first glance since we usually associate character with people. The idea of company character makes a ton of sense once you realize that a company is it’s own...
View ArticleIntroducing Reveille
We are very excited to introduce, and give you a little preview of the first application from Wikid Labs. It’s called Reveille, and it is going to add some great new features to 37signals’ Backpack...
View ArticleRuby Stuff: Use retry to restart a begin rescue block
I recently needed to be able retry a begin block and was simply nesting begins within begins, then I ran across this little Ruby gym. The retry, http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_exceptions.htm....
View ArticleReveille: From Start to Finish in 85 Days
Screen shot of Reveille A few weeks back we introduced Reveille as a slick new way to tie your Backpack Calendar to Backpack Reminders. Today we’re proud to say that Reveille is now available for...
View ArticleReveille Product Update: Timezone issue has been fixed
What’s New? We recently deployed an update which addresses some issues with reminders getting created at the incorrect time. In order to completely fix your account, you will need to set your timezone...
View ArticleCreate Reveille reminders in Backpack via SMS
Recently, 37signals rolled out an update to Backpack that allows calendar events to be created with an SMS message from your mobile device. This is a pretty cool new feature for Backpack users on the...
View ArticleBackpack API Throttling
A few weeks ago Greg received an email from Jeremy over at 37signals asking us why we were hitting the Backpack API so frequently (we were hitting it every 10 seconds looking for reminders that were in...
View ArticleJavaScript Stuff: CSS Dynamic Height and Width Using jQuery
While working away on Haven, our online development app, I found the need to be able to dynamically set the height and width of a few elements on the projects main editor page. It’s the part of the...
View ArticleTechnofunk Mind Maps
Greg and I had talked a little about building a Flex app that would help you to visualize your mind map and get it out of your head faster than drawing it on say a white board. So naturally I went...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Syntax Highlighting Engine – Part 1
This is the first of a series of posts where I’m going to discuss some of the, um… fun that we’ve had while writing Wikid Editor, the text editor that we built for our flagship product Haven (which is...
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