What? When? Where?

http://what-when-where.info/ is a small companion site to http://whenshouldwe.com that Erin, Mathew, Rory and I built over the weekend of RailsRumble. I'm not sure how long it will be around, we got some hosting along with the competition.

WWW will let you create a simple and standardised event page for any event you need to invite people too. Oh, and you don't need to create a damn account to use the service, unlike every other sodding website on the planet. It's just useful for everyone that has a net connection and an event to get people to.

So, fun things about the competition: writing code, eating pizza and drinking tea with smart people. Also, using GitHub was a worthwhile exercise. Working with Datejs was a pleasure. Working with Google Maps and Local Search API was neat too and I really like the realtime updates of the map.

Less fun things: our failure to come up with a plan for what to build until most of the way through Saturday morning, our ability to spend most of Saturday afternoon doubting our choice.

In the spirit of a retrospective I shouldn't criticise unless I can make a suggestion as to what to do differently next time.

We had a couple of meet ups prior to the weekend to try to decide what to build, they didn't produce a result.

Got to treat those meetings like they're happening on the Saturday morning and that a decision must be made by the end. A spoken statement that this is the idea, that everybody is onboard and that the weekend is all about execution would also have helped.

I reckon that keeping a big list of ideas somewhere is a pretty good idea. Rory and I wrote up a list a while back but only fragments of it seem to exist online. Time to create add to that Google Document for projects like this that come up in the future.

Comments

[Anna]

Hi.

I've just discovered whenshouldwe.com, and think it's a really great site! Simple idea, but wonderfully useful (and simple to use too!) Anyway, I just had one little comment - i've no idea if it over-complicates things perhaps, but maybe there could be a way of ranking the suggested dates in order of preference rather than just a yes/no option?
Couldn't find a contact for you on here, hence the comment here.
Anyway, even without a preference mode, it's a great little site that I will use a lot. Thanks!

Anna

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