I've been using Basecamp for years and have a love/hate relationship with it simply because it costs me money for clients that don't want to use it. However, I can't get rid of it because there are a few clients I have that need collaboration for designs. For coding projects I use various ticketing systems from Trac to Sifter and I won't get into that in this post.

During a current project Trac is being used for the backend parts but it falls apart on design collaboration. After a few late nights I'm thrilled with the progress of Django-Loupe for design collab.

Next out of the gate this week is the org-mode logo refresh. Well, actually it done last week but I'm only getting around to posting it now. As I mentioned in the last post, it's been hell-busy here.

Org-mode is an Emacs Mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system. I live in org-mode daily and when it was announced that it is up for a Sourceforge Community award I freshened up the logo for Carsten Dominik. The original logo was by french illustrator
Christophe Bataillon.

The image shows the before and after of the logo. The site now has the new logo posted.

I finally got some time to work on my backlog of logos this week and they are starting to hit the streets. So if you're waiting on me to finish the commissioned logos, they are coming quickly! Sorry for delays, it's been hell-busy here.

First out the door is the new djangodose logo for they great guys of TWiD fame Eric Florenzano, Brian Rosner and Kevin Fricovsky. I believe they have announced they are recording this Sunday for those (including myself) who are anxious for the new show. I'm still working on the site design which will be finished just in time for the show release.

I took a break from Emacs this weekend to give the new version of BBEdit a spin. The first thing I noticed was that it doesn't have snippets (clippings are the accurate term) for Django. Personally, I use yasnippet in Emacs so I took an hour and converted the library I use to clippings for BBEdit in the hopes someone finds them useful.

I've been a long time OmniFocus user and am a daily (or habitual) emacs user so it only makes sense for me to dabble with org mode for a GTD system. After all, when I'm writing code, why not have my projects todo lists in the next window. So this morning I figured I'd give org mode a try. It's not polished like OmniFocus or Things but seriously; why does a todo list need satin pajamas? I'm not sure I'll stick with it but I at least need to give it a trial run for a week or two.

How I Roll
When I get an email from a client that needs attention I use the clipper that comes with OmniFocus (Clip-o-tron 3000) to create a new task with a link to the email embedded. I also like to send research urls from Safari for projects to my todo lists as notes. This helps keep me on top of things (if that's possible) as projects progress.

Those of you who follow my good friend James Tauber on twitter, facebook or through the Pinax Project have already heard that James has resigned from mValent.

Most of you already know of freshmeat.net. Over the last few months I've been lucky enough to work with Patrick Lenz on the next incarnation of freshmeat.net.

Outside of my usual ramblings I wanted to point out that Phil Hagelberg has a great collection of emacs starter-kits over at github for those interested in going for a swim but don't know where the water is.

Since Paul Bissex announced the api for Django-powered dpaste.com last week I've had it's been on my todo list to make a emacs mode for posting pasties.

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I hope you're enjoying food, family and football, I know I am. I'm also enjoying my new emacs minor-mode developed by Chris Wanstrath, aka defunkt.