Comments on: Web Development Project Estimator

By: slajax

slajax — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:21:13 +0000

I think it’s a great little tool! Not everything has to reinvent the world. Every tool has a purpose, not every tool solves every problem for every person. Great job on this one man!

By: Remi

Remi — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:33:51 +0000

jdenton : wierd bug => sometimes, it works (progressive enhancements are done) and sometimes not : I still have all the text inputs, the default button at the bottom and no JS is working. Using Opera Error Console (I should use DragonFly to confirm), I cannot see any error.
I’m using Opera 9.60 under RHEL5. When I got time, I will upgrade to 9.63 to check if it solve the issue.

By: ThomasHansen

ThomasHansen — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:48:18 +0000

@jdenton
My point was that I think there are probably more important things to write about, don’t you think so…?

By: jdenton

jdenton — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:36:48 +0000

@Remi
Just blew the dust off of my Opera install and upgraded to 9.63. It works just fine.

@ThomasHansen
Proving once again that there is no idea beneath your ridicule. Stay classy dude.

@SteveTheKiwi
Ever hear of toolsets designed for beginners or those taking a first step toward practiced time management?

I think this is a cool little app – love the inline editing. It’s quick, clean and easy and with a few improvements, could serve a lot of people well. Good work.

By: businesscards

businesscards — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:07:25 +0000

I find this useful, systematic and time saver… Nice one… thanks

By: rXc3NtR1c

rXc3NtR1c — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:49:43 +0000

Hmmm, an ajax site and you guys are chiding him for NOT using a spreadsheet. Shame on you all. I’d use it as well.

By: SteveTheKiwi

SteveTheKiwi — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:44:09 +0000

Ever heard of a spreadsheet?

Remind me not to hire you, or you might charge me for your time goofing off :)

By: ThomasHansen

ThomasHansen — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:18:20 +0000

Congrats, a reinvent of a 5 “minute-to-create” spreedsheet, how impressive… ;)
Slow day on the news Dion…?

By: sds

sds — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:40:27 +0000

How about it is just simply easy to use. Reason enough for me to use it.

By: astuteo

astuteo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:46:55 +0000

I agree this does not offer any benefit over a spreadsheet. But there’s a lot of freelance web designers/developers who don’t have an estimating process at all. It was created for them. I could have just distributed my own spreadsheet, but that wouldn’t be much fun.

The Opera issue will certainly be fixed at some point. Sorry ’bout that.

By: broofa

broofa — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:10:34 +0000

Does this offer any benefit over a Google Spreadsheet? Specific drawbacks I see:
- There’s no easy way to inspect the formulas.
- There’s no way to share it with anyone (data is stored in browser cookie. fail.)
- There’s no way to customize data and formulas to account for personal business process requirements. E.g. to set up a table of known rates and refer to those.

By: Remi

Remi — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:33:19 +0000

Does not work at all with Opera 9.60. Too bad for a tool designed for and by webdevelopers :(

By: Stormbringer

Stormbringer — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:24:21 +0000

Using Spreadsheets in Google docs offers much more capabilities, e.g. it’s easy to share the estimation.