The Rumbly in My Tumbly

So I threw my hat into the ring this weekend and participated in the 2009 Rails Rumble. The gist of it is you have 48 to make a web app based off of a Rack compatible web framework.

I've never done anything like this before and I was pretty nervous. My idea was revolved around a common habit of mine. When I write these posts, I tend to build up folders of bookmarks that I will use for research. I go through my bookmarks, do my post, and then I trash the folder. Sometimes I forget to delete these folders or I neglect to do it for whatever reason. Next thing I know, my bookmarks bar is full of these mothers and I'm deleting a whole bunch of them.

So my app, Laterz, lets me use a bookmarks bar shortcut to auto-save URLs for me to go over later. I jokingly refer to it as time shifting URLs.

With Laterz, you login with OpenID and have a storage area for URLs. You can create categories to organize them if you want. Each category gets its own shortcut that can be copied to your bookmarks bar to auto-save URLs to that category.

It is pretty simple. I wish my design skills were a bit better so that it wouldn't look like some kind of PHP Nuke template from 1998 but oh well.

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