Though still in the final stages of testing, Layout-o-matic looks like a useful, timesaving tool. In a similar vein to the earlier mentioned list navigation tool, List-o-matic. Excellent tools, indeed.

The new ShellOn interface in v3 is quite a departure from the version two interface. I think that it is easy to use once you have taken your first steps. However, judging by the emails that I’ve recieved in response to the beta and release candiate versions, the main problem people have is that they are presented with a blank application to start with and are not sure where to begin. 37signals have written up a post about this so-called blank slate problem.

Online? Moi? With my reputation? You’d better believe it! Woohoo =)

Prepare for some appage apperances soon.

I think I’ve tracked down the Server Resourse Exceeded error that crashes the site every so often. My thinking is that it was down to a rouge SQL query. Over the weekend, I was doing some SQL and suddenly remembered the “SELECT TOP n” command. That was not in the blog and chat select querys. This means that it was returning all the rows in the table, rather than just ten. Doh! Anyway, we shall see if that was the cause. My fingers are crossed =)

After all the jazz over using styled lists as navigation over the past year, one is perhaps surprised that this hasn’t appeared sooner. However, I guess that the methods of doing the styling are becoming fairly standardised and the browser bugs have been ironed out, so now is a good time for this. What is it? A wizard to produce navigation from lists. Save yourself a couple of hours if you are in a rush, get the wizard to do the hard work and you can do the fun tweaking portion! We likes that idea.