Some recent activity at our internal 37signals Campfire chat room:
Smooth shopping cart
| Jamis |
my wife was just showing me an online yarn shop, they’ve got a really nice shopping cart implementation |
| Jamis |
try adding any of those to your cart |
| Jamis |
it does the faded-background modal |
| Jamis |
and when you’re done, you’re right back where you were |
| Jamis |
no loss of context and you can keep shopping right where you left off |
| David |
pretty nice |
| Ryan |
quite nice |
Yarn jones
| Mark |
Damn you, Jamis. |
| Mark |
I just clicked on that yarn shop link when my wife was in the room. |
| Ryan |
Yarn = NSFW? |
| Mark |
No, now I go broke when she buys them out. |
| Ryan |
haha |
| Mark |
She loves to make blankets and stuff for her friends and siblings who are having babies. |
| Mark |
Not Safe For Wallet |
| Sam |
lol |
Ze Frank
| Jason |
Pretty cool to see Ze Frank get “discovered” |
| Jason |
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| Jason |
He really is a funny dude. |
| Ryan |
yeah he really made himself |
| Ryan |
that’s cool |
| Jason |
he did. |
| Ryan |
i’ve tried to watch it a few times and i can’t manage tho :/ all the fast talking and quick edits gave me a headache |
| Jason |
you’re too old |
| Ryan |
haha |
| Ryan |
he def has talent |
| Ryan |
i thought this was hilarious |
| Ryan |
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| Jason |
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| Matt |
he’s real smart. |
| Jason |
He is which is his real asset. |
| Jamis |
lol @ “street chickens”. that one is hilarious |
Sitemeter pagination
| Jason |
I’ve always liked the simplicity of the pagination in Sitemeter |
| Jason |
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Facial recognition at the doctor
| Jason |
Oh saw some cool shit at the doctor today |
| Jason |
They have facial recognition for their workstations |
| David |
as password? |
| Jason |
the doctor sits down in front of the computer and it recognizes him and logs him in automatically. |
| Jason |
was very cool |
| David |
scifi |
| Jason |
and it’s also hooked up to the doors for the rooms so if the door opens the person logged in is logged out instantly |
| Jason |
it’s really very very cool |
| Jason |
Blew me away. |
Cheap cloning
| David |
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| Jason |
that shopify clone thing is hilarious |
| Jason |
I love this too |
| Jason |
“We need to build it with Ruby On Rails.” |
| Jason |
we NEED to… |
| David |
That’s my #1 hate word at the moment |
Indian home cooking
| Jason |
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| Jason |
Been making some great things from this book |
| Jason |
Recommended |
| Ryan |
JF: looks great. thanks |
| Jason |
I made a few dals that were better than anything I’ve ever had in a restaurant |
| Jason |
not hard, crazy flavor, and no butter or lots of oil. |
| Jason |
Barely any salt too |
| Jason |
was surprisingly healthy. I’ve always thought these lentil things were full of butter and salt |
| Ryan |
JF: i’ll def be picking this up |
| Ryan |
stellar reviews on the amazon page too |
| Jason |
yeah it’s really good. You’ll like it. |
| Matt |
cookbook looks nice. tough to find ingredients? |
| Matt |
someone should start an indian fast food chain. now that Chipotle’s a hit, feels like america’s ready for it. |
| Ryan |
you can get most of the ingredients at whole foods |
| Ryan |
or ethnic places if you’ve got em |
| Ryan |
but the basics are simple |
| Ryan |
indian fast food would rule. i still wish we had a yoshinoya in chicago (japanese fast food) |
Ricky Gervais on failure
| Sam |
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| Sam |
“I just simply wouldn’t do anything that I wasn’t terribly in charge of. I don’t let anything go. I worry about the font on the back of the DVD, and I’ll do this as long as that continues … We only do what we think is good and what we’re happy with. I do that in stand-up, I even do it with my children’s books. I don’t do market research, I don’t have focus groups, I don’t care. I don’t care if it fails, honestly. I’d rather have something that’s completely mine fail than something succeed that I’m not proud of.” |
| Matt |
that’s great. there’s a great scene at the end of zach galifianakis’ (funny comedian) final VH1 show. he reveals he’s been cancelled and breaks into a song and dance number that reveals a big whiteboard with the phrase: “At least I’m not Carson Daly.” similar sentiment. |
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19 comments so far
nate 26 Jan 07
NSFY = No Soup For You
Jed 26 Jan 07
Re: that shopping cart. It’s very nice. I made a cart that doesn’t make you leave the page at my T-shirt store. Now I just need to make more shirts to sell!
MattLat 26 Jan 07
That shopping cart is nice, until you get too many items in your cart with a small screen.
Sergio Bayona 26 Jan 07
I was a big Yoshinoya fan (Japanese fast food restaurant) when I lived in Tokyo. When I moved back to the US and started living in Los Angeles I was surprised to see there were Yoshinoya restaurants all over.
It only took one try to be completely disappointed at the taste and quality of the American Yoshinoya. It was awful.
RS 26 Jan 07
Thanks for linking your store, Jed. That’s a really cool design.
Ben Lowery 26 Jan 07
Regarding the Indian Home Cooking, I took a cooking class with Suvir right when the book was coming out. He’s a great guy and the food in that book is indeed quite wonderful and fairly easy to make. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in it.
Definitely try the soups.. They’re killer.. :)
Jamie 26 Jan 07
Jamis, we have a similar cart implementation at Crate and Barrel, however right now it isn’t AJAX . We’re working on that now. What was that about the jackhammer spoon thing again? :P
McGurky 26 Jan 07
You guy’s should try Vij’s Indian food cookbook. Vij and his wife run my favorite restaurant anywhere (Vij’s) in Vancouver and he recently published a cookbook of the restaurant’s recipes. My wife and I have dug into it and it is fun, easy and amazing tasting. See it here: http://www.amazon.com/Vijs-Elegant-Inspired-Indian-Cuisine/dp/1553651847
Dan Boland 26 Jan 07
I’m wondering whether or not to show that yarn site to my insane knitting wife….... hell, she’s probably already bookmarked it. At any rate, the shopping cart functionality is really nice and effective. Too bad the logo typeface looks to be the dreaded Comic Sans. =D
Clint 26 Jan 07
RE: Shopping cart…
href="javascript:Add2CartCat(1971,'CategoryProducts1_rptProducts_ctl13_Prod_drpStock');"YUK !
Speaking of Javascript. I get an error posting a comment when JS is turned off.
Anonymous Coward 26 Jan 07
Clint, it’s time to upgrade your browser to 2007.
Jed 26 Jan 07
@ RS
You’ve made me blush. You’ve also made me crave Indian food.
AND , you’ve made me love Gervais even more than I did before—what an awesome guy!
John Kranz 27 Jan 07
I saw a recent shopping cart solution that was quite nice. Included a drag and drop to a lower pane to add items to a cart. I don’t think there is anything available on the market yet, per say, that would be considered to be a Web 2.0 shopping cart implementation.
Jed 27 Jan 07
@John Kranz
Panic’s shirt store fits that description.
John Kranz 27 Jan 07
Yes, I like that implementation, but I don’t believe it’s offered as a service. (I’m in the market for such a service).
Caleb Maclennan 27 Jan 07
I was impressed with the coherence of the design and function, until I turned off javascript to see what they cooked up for accessibility. Nothing. If your wife is drooling, just go turn disable javascript and your wallet will be protected. There isn’t even a warning about the loss of function.
I am trying to cook up a site right now that includes a shopping cart where products get moved from the page into an always visible cat displayed as a thumbnail-bar. I”m using dojo for the js effects and ajax. Has anybody seen something like this that works well and looks good?
Caleb Maclennan 27 Jan 07
1) 37 signals comment posting is broken without javascript.
2) Panic Shirt’s cart is pretty sweet. I enjoyed playing around with it for quite a while, and it even looks pretty good. Unfortunately after a couple of minutes, it went haywire and started charging me for everything I put in the cart, but only displaying items 3 and beyond. Even clear-all didn’t fix this. The first two items I would add ratcheted up the total, but no product was displayed until #3 went in. Also, this too suffers from a complete lack of accessibility.
Jon Crawford 29 Jan 07
I love the “Need” word from clients. And by “love” I mean “hate”. Drives me crazy.
I want to tell them that they don’t even NEED a website. They don’t NEED a computer at all!
I NEED to probably drink a little less coffee and NEED to get more sleep!
!jon
Rachel 30 Jan 07
Ah, two of my favorite things – SVN and yarn – together in one post. I’ll bookmark this site.
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