Social Network Peer Pressure
I didn’t go home for the holidays. Instead, I stayed and worked at the Lab. This meant I had a lot of time to get stuff done, and I just launched a brand new web application, called RunLog. RunLog is an application that you can use to log how much you run. If your new year’s resolution is running, this is an application for you!
RunLog uses OpenID for user authentication, and all applications I build this year will use it. Hopefully this means it will be easier on everybody, no more remembering username and password for every different site you use. RunLog is also a social network. Hopefully, by support (or pressure you feel) from other users, it will influence people to keep on going.
I think using OpenID is important. The Locker project I’ve been working on has turned into an OpenID authentication server, and it is fully functional as an OpenID server now. I just need to smooth up some rough edges and it will finally be available for use.
Oh, for anyone interested in using OpenID with Ruby on Rails, I modified the generator that ships with the ruby-openid library which can be downloaded here.
