Todd Fast's dashboard

Todd Fast replied on June 08, 2009 05:06 to the question "my homepage on Zembly does not display anything" in zembly:

Sorry to hear about this, guys. Can you please clear your browser cache, and make sure that you're accessing the site via zembly.com, not zembly.net? Also, are you using Firefox 3?

Todd Fast replied on May 28, 2009 07:01 to the problem "Problem with Zembly Widget Edit crashes firefox" in zembly:

Quentin, can you please point us to the widget that causes your problem?

If your browser is crashing, then it's most likely related to the zembly editor's use of a Java applet. Can you please update your JDK or Java runtime and see if it fixes the problem?

Todd Fast replied on April 25, 2009 20:48 to the question "I cannot sign up for this site. It gives an error." in zembly:

Can you tell us what you did and what the nature of the error is? You should be able to sign in with your SDN account if you already have one (though note that we only accept SDN accounts that use an email address for the user name).

Todd Fast replied on April 21, 2009 06:22 to the question "Source Code and Clone" in zembly:

Good point, Justin. It should be draggable too.

Todd Fast replied on September 09, 2008 07:09 to the question "What about widgets for the chumby?" in zembly:

I've been watching the chumby on occasion during its development, and it's a cool device. Unfortunately, its widgets are based on Flash, which zembly doesn't support at this time.

Todd Fast replied on August 26, 2008 09:07 to the question "Database Hosting, Access and HowTo Docs" in zembly:

Great question! Right now, zembly does not host your database, though we are working on a storage solution.

The easiest path for you at the moment is to use either Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), or the Facebook Data Store API for your application data. This is what you'll see in the various samples at zembly.

We are also working on the ability for you to bring your own APIs into zembly. For example, you will be able to host your own database or service-based backend for your application (say, on Amazon EC2 or your own host) and then easily call that API from zembly. This capability isn't public yet, but we are soliciting early testers. If you are interested in helping out, please let me know at todd [at] zembly.com.

Todd Fast replied on August 05, 2008 02:58 to the question "Can't sign in even with invitation key" in zembly:

Thanks for the reports, everyone. We had a problem related to an addition of more servers that was causing invitations to be sent incorrectly (or not at all).

Michael, I'll be checking to see if your email address is in the database.

Westin and samolang, can you please provide email addresses, or try again by going through the invitation signup process on the homepage? You can send info directly to me at todd[at]zembly.com.

Todd Fast replied on July 29, 2008 22:36 to the problem "Facebook Create App Try Again loop" in zembly:

Can we add some terminology to the wizard to make sure this possibility is clear to everyone?

Todd Fast set one of Todd Fast's replies as an official response to "Is all the code on zembly public?" in zembly

Todd Fast set one of Todd Fast's replies as an official response to "Is all the code on zembly public?" in zembly

Todd Fast replied on July 25, 2008 07:27 to the question "Is all the code on zembly public?" in zembly:

Hi Charlie; sorry it took so long to get back to you. Great question, and I know several people have asked this same thing. Here's the scoop:

Today, in the private beta, the code you write is viewable by other people in the private beta. However, they cannot edit your things unless you invite them to.

In the near future, we will allow you to make your code private, but before we do, we want to find ways to encourage people to also work in the open, at least part of the time.

Why? Ultimately, zembly is about creating social apps, and doing that socially. We hope the community within zembly will contribute to the commons so that people can learn from others and reuse what they create.

The idea is that the the more people use zembly, the more interesting and useful it becomes. Though we definitely understand that proprietary code has a key role in zembly's ecosystem and that users need that feature, we also feel it would be a shame if zembly were *only* a repository of proprietary apps and code. We hope that in time, zembly can be more interesting to all of us than anything purely proprietary could be.

To summarize, we will definitely add the ability to make your code private before we're out of private beta.

Until then, are there any issues for you with the current model of openness? Is it something that prevents you from using zembly during the private beta, and if so, in what way?

Todd Fast replied on July 22, 2008 09:29 to the question "how can user build his own service to be use inside zembly?" in zembly:

BTW, we're still moving ahead on this and are continuing to test the feature before we release it widely. We want to make sure it works before opening it up to everyone.

Todd Fast replied on July 22, 2008 09:26 to the problem "False "Published" status in the timeline" in zembly:

This is currently the case because of some low-level system details. As Ryan mentioned, we're working toward a fix, but it will take some time before we can rearchitect around this. Please hang in there.

Todd Fast set one of Todd Fast's replies as an official response to "Todo lists" in zembly

Todd Fast replied on July 22, 2008 09:24 to the idea "Todo lists" in zembly:

This feature does not exist yet, but this is a cool idea! I've entered it into our bug system as WOW-2034 and we'll consider it in an upcoming sprint. Thanks for the feedback.

Todd Fast replied on July 20, 2008 23:39 to the problem "do not spam!" in zembly:

We don't send unsolicited email. Please let us know if you receive something you believe was unsolicited and we'll do our best to understand and resolve the problem.

Todd Fast replied on July 20, 2008 23:35 to the problem "Registration Response" in zembly:

It's fixed!

Todd Fast replied on July 01, 2008 23:53 to the problem "Registration Response" in zembly:

Hi Pavel. Thanks, this was fixed yesterday. Thanks for the heads up!

Todd Fast replied on June 18, 2008 19:53 to the problem "Registration Response" in zembly:

Thanks Maya. I think what you're referring to is what we call the invitation email, which is the message that gets sent to you when someone on zembly invites you to join zembly.

The confusion probably arose because we are reusing this feature to send beta invitations from the zembly system user when you register your email address. We could modify this message to be clearer that it is in regard to joining the beta.

Todd Fast marked one of maya's replies in zembly as useful. maya replied to the idea "Visual Chunking / White space".