Giftag – the universal shopping wishlist
Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Jeff LinI’m pleased to announce the re-launch of Giftag, the universal wish list where you can pick anything from any website and share your wish lists with your friends. Giftag is a Best Buy project that started off as a prototype in Drupal. I had the pleasure of joining the team to help re-platform the application onto Django on Google AppEngine. Along with Gary, Steve B, Curt, Thomas, Nick, Jerry, Steve P, and Sean, we successfully launched the new version of the application just in time for the holiday shopping season!
Check it out, let me know what you think, and have fun. It’s very much an evolving application, so user feedback is more than welcome. We like it, and we think it has a lot of potential.
Idea. When viewing items in list view, if I click on the thumbnail, show me the larger image. When I click on the text for the item, take me into the record to read more.
Instead, now, if I click the pic or the text I go into the record and then I can click the pic to see the larger image.
With me?
Posted at 12:08 pm on December 10th, 2008@Selch, totally with you. I was thinking the exact same thing. Will make the change and you’ll see it in the next deploy. Thanks for the feedback!
BTW, since we’re using AppEngine, we can deploy anytime with the click of a button. Zero downtime. Far cry from the days of Java web application development.
Posted at 12:16 pm on December 10th, 2008Congrats! Although the Java comment is really only because you worked on shite projects.
Posted at 10:51 pm on December 10th, 2008