Fun/helpful project
I haven’t created a fun little project lately, but I have still been playing.
Lately I’ve been into messing around in Drupal and seeing how quickly I can bring an idea to life.
A week or two ago, I sat down for an evening and cobbled together a tool to replace a real life tool I used. To keep track of all the projects I’m working on, and who’s doing what, I found it easiest to use a white board with post-it notes. There was just something about the simplicity of it. It allowed me to have a snapshot of all the concurrent projects, without overloading my senses and causing me to feel overwhelmed.
I ran into two major issues with my real world solution. It worked great, don’t get me wrong. But it only worked for me when I was in my office. I couldn’t lug my white board around with me. And when I worked abroad for a couple weeks last year, it was painfully obvious how much I missed my board and how I couldn’t remember what was on it. The other issue is that I work with people on a regular basis, and sometimes it’s nice to allow those individuals insight into what’s going on.
Enter ‘Peej’. I have no idea why I decided to call it that. But Peej is my virtual replacement for my physical white board. It allows me to keep track of everything online, just like I did on my real white board. Only now I can see it from anywhere (I even optimized it for my iPhone). And I can share it with people.
Since it contains quasi-sensitive data, I won’t be sharing it publicly. But Here’s a screenshot from my initial design file. It looks a little different in reality, but the basic gist is there. So I’ve been fulfilling my fun/creative self-imposed quota through this project as of late. Oh, and it took me about an evening to pull it all together, theme/data/and all. Then another evening I modified styles for the iPhone. And I’ve slowly been adding to it, now that it’s extensible! :)
