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James Valentine replied on December 05, 2008 01:11 to the update "I want Sandy and Stikkit shutdown pushed back to 12/19" in I want Sandy:
Thanks for this much-needed extension, Rael. Please find a way to keep that code alive! Don't let them shelve it completely: I know the Twitter folks must be busy, but your work is too good to abandon!-
James Valentine replied on November 27, 2008 17:23 to the update "A fork in the road (An important announcement about I want Sandy)" in I want Sandy:
The key aspect of the Sandy system to me is the (almost) natural language parsing. Making that code available on relaxed licensing terms would allow the currently competing but not up-to-scratch services extend their offerings and fill the gaps.
I appreciate that your IP is valuable, but it is no good to anyone if it sits dormant on a testing server at Twitter HQ. If you at least make arrangements to release this core class of code, The Rest Of Us can start to extend our systems whilst Twitter gets down to extending theirs. Everyone can win.
I'm sure I'm not alone in making using of the @yearly tag a few times in the months that I've been signed up to Sandy. Providing a feature like that is an implicit way of saying that you're in it for the long run. Not being able to work out a self-sustaining revenue model is not your fault: it may simply not be one of your skills. You could have got someone else to do that! If the constant support queries are taking up your time, find trusted community supporters and grant them limited admin privileges. Get someone else (like Dial2Do) to step up to the plate.
Your skill at anthropomorphism has partially been your downfall here. Not for no reason are people using terms like kill, fire, notice period. Is this maybe the first time a lump of code has caused such vitriol in its user group? -
James Valentine shared an idea in I want Sandy on June 05, 2008 00:36:
Could you add an @weeknights tag?An @weeknights tag would allow us to get an evening reminder before a normal working day, but would save us from being reminded on a Friday night, for example. I suggest that you add this tag to do exactly as @weekdays does, but from Sunday through to Thursday, rather than from Monday through to Friday. Or go why not whole hog and let us add special tags with our own time, reminder and other settings? -
James Valentine started following the question "Importing into Sandy" in I want Sandy.
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James Valentine started following the question "Importing into Sandy" in I want Sandy.
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James Valentine replied on May 27, 2008 16:30 to the problem "No SMS confirmation on O2 UK" in I want Sandy:
Sandy developers,
would you consider getting an account with an SMS gateway that works well in the UK? TM4B might be your answer: I've used them for years quite reliably, and the API is very simple to implement.
Regards,
J. -
James Valentine asked a question in I want Sandy on May 26, 2008 23:57:
24 hour clock times in 0745 formatI like to express times in 24 hour clock format, but without a : or . in between. Surely I can't be alone in this? So long as the user types "at" before the time, could Sandy not start recognising times like 0900 and 2100? I don't think that's too ambiguous, and it would stop me accidentally scheduling all my reminders for the beginning of the day (i.e. 0700 digest). -
James Valentine replied on May 26, 2008 23:52 to the idea "how about sandy storing and retrieving files?" in I want Sandy:
If you use something like Gmail, your sent file will have been saved already. Although you could request that Sandy resend it, I think that's a bit wasteful, as it is already in your e-mail system. I'm not sure Sandy should start handling all the gigs of data transfer that this feature would require.
