This currently is the best invoicing app I have discovered http://www.getharvest.com/
Updated!
Though there are some issues. For example translating is a nice thing, but it is global not per invoice. Mostly I need invoices in Latvian, but if I will need it in english I will have to translate it back and forth.
I need to find a good wysiwyg editor for a project i'm currently working on. Here are my thoughts on some of the editors:
Conclusion is that there is no prefect solution. Currently choices are:
By the way the best editor I have seen have wordpress and I see, that posterous is also using something similar. Maybe somebody knows if it can be downloaded separately?
Note about WYSIWYM editors.
I don't see where so called WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editors could be handy, I would better use markup editor. If website admin is an average user, I guess he/she doesn't care if the text is in p tag, or div tag. One of these is WYMEditor. See example here: http://files.wymeditor.org/wymeditor/trunk/src/examples/01-basic.html
P.s. I am fan of jQuery, so I did leave out editors based on js libraries such as mootools, django, yahoo UI.
Yestereday it wasn't very creative day at work so I took a work with me using usb flash drive.
At work we have some paranoid IT security people who wont let us work from home, so if I want to do it, I have to copy source code onto the flash drive and setup similar configuration on my home computer. It is not the first time, so no problems with configuration, but copying, archiving, copying, unarchiving is a quite booring process. So I was thinking: "Is it possible to get to our work development server?". Asking for an access to IT is not an option in this case.
Then I remebered about port forwarding. Is it possible to connect to some server, create tunnel from connecting side and connect to this tunnel from other side? Of course it is possible. I guess I did know it before, just somehow haven't thought about it. What I need was a server. I can't use any server, again because of strict IT policy, but recently we rent a new server outside of our work environment for one project and I have an access to it from my work PC.
What should I do next?
Luckily for me port forwarding is included in ssh client/server and all I have to do is to put right parameters in command line.
I have to connect my computer to the server and open port xxx and yyy (ssh and www) that will be forwarded to our dev server at work (192.168.10.10 is an example for dev server in work's local environment):
ssh -R 127.0.0.1:xxx:192.168.10.10:22 -R 127.0.0.1:yyy:192.168.10.10:80 username@example.org
Switch -R means that we will be forwarding remote port to local. 127.0.0.1 is for security so no one else from outside world do not guess the port and avoid any vulnerabilities to the dev server. "xxx" and "yyy" is ports to open on remote machine. "192.168.10.10:22" is ip address and port where to forward incoming connections.
Next thing to do is create a tunnel from my home computer to the server. You can leave "127.0.0.1:" out from -R switch and connect directly to the server by opening http://example.org:yyy/ and ssh -p xxx username@example.org. Considering security expectations at my work I would choose to create a tunnel from my home computer to the server either.
This should do it:
ssh -L xxx:127.0.0.1:xxx -L yyy:127.0.0.1:yyy username@example.org
Where "-L" tells ssh to forward local incoming port to "xxx" and "yyy" to the server (127.0.0.1 is server's local ip address, what everybody knows already:) on port "xxx" and "yyy".
Now on my home computer I open http://127.0.0.1:xxx/ and it should open a default website from our dev server. As we use apache virtualhosts on our dev I would have to set some entries in hosts file to get other sites.
That's about it.
Today I received an email from google analytics team. It makes me feel kind of proud. :)
Getting data updated once a day is not a very good thing, but getting to it because of big amount of data is a good thing. :)Hello,
We love that you love our product and use it as much as you do. We have observed however, that a website you are tracking with Google Analytics is sending over 1 million hits per day to Google Analytics servers. This is well above the "5 million pageviews per month per account" limit specified in the Google Analytics Terms of Service. Processing this amount of data multiple times a day takes up valuable resources that enable us to continue to develop the product for all Google Analytics users.
As such, starting August 23rd, 2010, the metrics in your reports will be updated once a day, as opposed to multiple times during the course of the day. You will continue to receive all the reports and features in Google Analytics as usual. The only change will be that data for a given day will appear the following day.
We trust you understand the reasons for this change.
Regards,
Your Google Analytics Team
Hi,Recently I have started to learn some new stuff. One of them is MongoDB so called “NoSQL” database.What I have learned is that mongoDB is very simple. Running MongoDB and installation of PHP extension for it, took only some 10 minutes. Then fast overview of some source code at php.net manual and we are good to go. If you have some earlier experience with javascript and databases like MySQL, you shouldn’t have any problems with MongoDB. This morning I started to migrate table from MySQL to Mongo and did a mistake. I changed table in MySQL query but did not changed it in Mongo insert. So what I had was two tables in one Mongo collection.Fortunately those tables has some fields that are not in other table, so I came up with this code:
self::$mdb->i18n->remove(array(':where' => new mongoCode('return (this.parent == 0 || this.parent > 0) && typeof this.last_access == "undefined";')));
Where “self::$mdb” is reference to php MongoDB object. I guess: “typeof this.last_access == "undefined”;“ would be just fine, either, but I used "this.parent” for double checking. Another problem with Mongo is to get max value of some field, so I decided to paste a code here to also remember this one if in case I need it someday. It finds max value of field “id” in collection “countries”.
$max_id = self::$mdb->execute(new mongoCode(' find_max = []; db.properties.find([], {id : 1}).map(function(item){ if (item.id) { find_max.push(parseFloat(item.id)); } }); return Math.max.apply(Math, find_max); ')); print_r($max_id['retval']);
It is pure JavaScript inside of Mongo, so if you know javascript getting advanced stuff out of Mongo should be very easy for you.
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