Motigo calendar launched
Today, we launched the motigo calendar over on motigo.com. As I have been the primary developer on the project (which took only two weeks plus another week that was spent on bug fixing, adding 5 languages, and other smaller corrections) I am proud of my little baby.
The motigo calendar is the first service that we develop ourselves, and the first service to launch after motigo.com first saw the world in April 2007.
In the short amount of time we’ve have had to develop the product, I have focused on laying down strictly defined constraints for what the product should do and implicitly what it should not do. I believe the outcome has been extremely positive given the short amount of time used for developing it. The product is far from bloated, but has its focus on a few very cool features. Among these are javascript / AJAX calendar views, import of RSS feeds (did I say feed aggregator?), and small embed-able versions of the calendar for the webmaster to plug into his existing design.
As much as it has been a pleasure to develop the back-end for the product itself, as much please has it been to dive into the world of javascript. I had no clue how dynamic the language was before I started working on the motigo calendar. Almost like being back in Ruby land… and then not really.
Enough talk… go check the newly launched calendar out at motigo.com.
August 11th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Congratulations. I thought you said you usually don’t launch on fridays
It looks nice. Is the back end code made in PHP?
What’s the point of having RSS feeds in a calendar?
PS. There’s an s missing in the link to http://motigo.com/about/calendars in the blog post
August 11th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
We don’t launch on fridays – the calendar was launched around noon at 12:00 – although I have to admit that the plan was to launch tuesday. Some IE css bugs delayed everything (as always?)
And yup – the backend is in PHP – using the Zend Framework’s controller, and CakePHPs AppModel (a RoR rip-off).
Having the capability of importing external RSS feeds to the calendar is very useful. Say that you are running some sort of interest group – could be the local Ruby On Rails brigade. One thing that you would like to put out for people to know is when to meet up and when there are other interesting events happening concerning your interest groups. But what is equally as important is to keep track of what each member in the interest group is blogging about concerning the interest groups field.
Another example could be the the local soccer club wanting to subscribe to game results and have that in their calendar along with their own personalized information.
A third example could be to subscribe to a flickr rss feed, so that these will automatically be inserted and shown along with your own events.
As I said – the possibilities are many.
Hope you will enjoy it!