Matita Thoughts and experiments

Clocks

I finally had some time to work on the Clocks web app I thought about in the previous post.

It is not perfect (yet) as I wanted it to be, but if I’d release it when I think it is perfect I surely won’t release it anytime.

And soooo… here it is! Clocks

I wanted it clean and simple, but maybe it is too clean and simple… Maybe I’ll update it with some info and instructions.

Current features are:

  • you can search cities to add a new clock
  • you can name the clock to identify it with something more specific than the city name (e.g. in my case I’d name it with customer name)
  • when you add/rename/delete clocks the URL auto-updates, so you can bookmark it and save your current configuration, or send the link to someone to share your clocks with names
  • optimized for mobile

There is still something missing from my original idea:

  • it doesn’t work offline
  • it requests all the informations on every page reload (I wanted it to request mostly once per day to update Daylight Saving Time)

For the development process I’m using Browserify and some Grunt task to validate and minify the code, but CSS and HTML is still embed in index.html, I plan to use Less and some template engine like Handlebars.

Hope it is usable and useful for anyone.

Have any thoughts, questions, criticisms? Tweet me at @il_matita, I'd be happy to know your opinion on the subject!