Recently, 37 Signals added a journal feature to Backpack. I wrote a little dashboard widget that uses their API and can post your status and create new journal entries. Download BackpackJournal.wdgt To use this, you’ll need your Backpack API Key. To get that, go to ‘my info’ and click the ‘Show your API key’ After that, enter […]

On February 19th, 2004 I registered roobasoft.com. At that time I knew I wanted it to someday be my full time job, but it was a remote dream. Today, at 2 p.m. EDT I finished my last day of employment and that dream became a reality. What’s next? For the short term I’ll be doing contract […]

My holiday project has been deploying store.roobasoft.com. It’s Andy Kim’s open source Ruby on Rails store, Potion Store. I’ve known about Potion Store since Andy first opened it to the public. Since my current PayPal standard solution was working, and sales weren’t great, I didn’t see any need to change things. However, the PayPal standard […]

rooSwitch 1.2 is available now. The only feature that made it into this release is the ability to switch profiles from the dock menu. The other major improvement is a fixed hang seen on Leopard. Here’s some quick status on the rooApps: rooSwitch The 1.2 release was started many months ago and took way too long to finish. […]

Here’s a video showing one of the excuses I have for it being so quiet here lately: Video made with iStopMotion. Note that the rock, grass and mulch you see used to not exist. Our back yard used to be a wasteland of weeds as tall as me. As seen here:

At the 1h 24m mark of Macbreak Weekly episode 51 Mr. Merlin Mann gives rooSwitch a pick of the week nod and Leo then talks up rooVid a bit. It’s always great to hear and see others talk about your work in a positive way. Thanks guys

There are plenty of uses for rooSwitch that I will never think of. That’s why I love finding blog posts from users explaining how they’re using rooSwitch. What’s better than a blog post? A screencast! Earlier this week, I found a user generated screencast showing off rooSwitch managing multiple profiles for Final Cut Pro. I got […]

Tonight was Apple’s annual design award’s ceremony. rooSwitch took runner-up in the Developer Tool category! I’m obviously pretty excited about this and am glad I made it to WWDC this year. It’s really awesome to have something I made be recognized by Apple. On with the thanks. I’ll start by thanking my wife and our two girls. They […]

The traineo folks hooked me up with a simple API quite quickly (simple == good). The widget has two big improvements: You can now enter your traineo username / password (no longer relies on Safari cookies) The gauge is much more reliable and the NaN issue should be resolved. It was fun working with the traineo folks […]

In order to keep myself busy, I’ve moved hosting providers again. If you notice any bumps, please let me know @ contact@roobasoft.com The move is from pair (who I still highly recommend) to a slice over on slicehost (who I hope to be able to recommend). I got the slice to play with some rails stuff […]