Re: How should I begin this project?

2014-03-24 Thread Tim Visher
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:43 PM, kurofune jesseluisd...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much for both of those emails Gary. Your programming advice rang very true and doodle does look almost exactly like what I need. I'll look into that and google calendar, but now I need a good project to

Re: How should I begin this project?

2014-03-24 Thread Aditya Athalye
Thanks for the lead on exercism.io, Tim. I just set it up, to peek at how it looks/works. The setup itself was a breeze, and the very first exercise is a nice little text processing problem. (Based on Deaf Grandma, found here: http://pine.fm/LearnToProgram/?Chapter=06) Feels like a good

Re: How should I begin this project?

2014-03-24 Thread Tim Visher
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Aditya Athalye aditya.atha...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the lead on exercism.io, Tim. I just set it up, to peek at how it looks/works. The setup itself was a breeze, and the very first exercise is a nice little text processing problem. (Based on Deaf

How should I begin this project?

2014-03-20 Thread kurofune
At my job, I have to meet clients multiple times a week and schedule appointments with them at various places around town. Recently, I have seen a boom in business and while this is very fortunate it has made scheduling tedious. Lamenting this fact, it dawned on me that I might be able to make

Re: How should I begin this project?

2014-03-20 Thread Tim Visher
I would just use Google Calendar for that. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:53 AM, kurofune jesseluisd...@gmail.com wrote: At my job, I have to meet clients multiple times a week and schedule appointments with them at various places around town. Recently, I have seen a boom in business and while

Re: How should I begin this project?

2014-03-20 Thread Nando Breiter
I'm not sure what you mean by scheduling asymmetries. If you mean that someone misunderstood where and when you are supposed to meet, that's one thing. Instead of a web application, you could use a simple email to confirm appointments in this way. At least your clients already use email and would

Re: How should I begin this project?

2014-03-20 Thread kurofune
Thanks for the responses. I looked into google calendar but I couldn't find anything about this feature. I agree that things can get complex and unwieldy really quick. I am of course using emails and calendars. The problem is that when dealing with large numbers of customers it would be nice to

Re: How should I begin this project?

2014-03-20 Thread Gary Trakhman
This sounds like exactly what doodle does: http://doodle.com/en/ On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:43 AM, kurofune jesseluisd...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the responses. I looked into google calendar but I couldn't find anything about this feature. I agree that things can get complex and unwieldy

Re: How should I begin this project?

2014-03-20 Thread Gary Trakhman
Also, general programming advice: I find myself switching between top-down and bottom-up approaches willy-nilly, but in either case I would avoid worrying about choosing components and impls right away. With both approaches, when prototyping, I'd favor use of core functions and data structures

Re: How should I begin this project?

2014-03-20 Thread David Pidcock
I second Google Calendar. You can make appointments show as busy so the details are not shared with all clients. Then share your calendar with each client. You can invite specific clients to specific appointments via email, make some of them recurring, and it's up to the client to respond to

Re: How should I begin this project?

2014-03-20 Thread kurofune
Thank you very much for both of those emails Gary. Your programming advice rang very true and doodle does look almost exactly like what I need. I'll look into that and google calendar, but now I need a good project to work on! How does one go about getting mentored in Clojure? Is that even a