Hi Google… Please make creating a folder in Reader easier

[ This is a re-post of my older original article at EchoUser here ]

It’s 7:00 a.m. and I am crammed into a bus packed with commuters.  As I try gingerly to prevent my face from rubbing against the armpit of an adjacent passenger, I awkwardly suspend my clipboard over my head and try to take notes on every aspect of the experience.  You see, while other passengers are traveling to their offices on this bus, for today the bus IS my office.
So why might you ask am I here? It’s …

A recent challenge I faced while working on our product was a requirement that surfaced from a potential client who asked that they be able to use our web-based application as-is, but host their own data internally (in other words, run their own database separate from the one all of our other clients share).
My initial thought was to set-up a second sub-domain (lets call it www2.myapp.com) pointing to our rails application and add a “before_filter” to the ApplicationController that could detect which request.host was being used, and connect to the …

Guerrila Design is something Felix and I have been kicking around as a marketing / sales strategy for a while. While his posting (which you should read) has a slightly sour antic about it, I definitely think he’s onto something.