{"id":129,"date":"2005-08-15T13:14:46","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T21:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustinjessen.com\/2005\/08\/15\/the-new-generation-of-web-apps\/"},"modified":"2005-08-15T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T21:14:46","slug":"the-new-generation-of-web-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/the-new-generation-of-web-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"The new generation of web apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several weeks I have become increasingly dependant on centralized web apps to get things done.  I remember not too long ago when I scoffed at any product that I could no own or operate from my own web server\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6  my stance has changed oh so much.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve completely fallen in love with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmail.com\">Gmail<\/a>.  I have gotten to the point that my old primary address at this domain is almost never used.  I see a few messages here and there, but almost all the regular daily traffic has moved over to <a href=\"mailto:rustin.jessen@gmail.com\">my gmail account<\/a>.  I can get a full featured interface from home or work, unlike the old and clunky squirrelMail that my host uses.  Very useful, I highly recommend it.<\/li>\n<li>Many of you already know that in addition to my Disney gig, I do contract consulting work.  Accounting and invoicing is something that I hate with every bone in my body\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but in recent days it has become strangely enjoyable thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blinksale.com\">Blinksale<\/a>.  It&#8217;s not an accounting system, it just does invoicing.  I tried to get QuickBooks to just do invoicing, but it has a million other useless (to me) features that I just couldn&#8217;t understand and kept getting in the way.  Blinksale actually makes me look forward to sending and receiving invoices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last several weeks I have become increasingly dependant on centralized web apps to get things done. I remember not too long ago when I scoffed at any product that I could no own or operate from my own web server\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 my stance has changed oh so much. I&#8217;ve completely fallen in love with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/the-new-generation-of-web-apps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The new generation of web apps<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}