Good data

And completely powered by holmz.org. In fact, we highly recommend power users go through and poke through the holmz database to see how these two sites tie together.

holmz was such a great help in getting WattzOn right.  Not only does it allow us to store user contributed data next to real data, not only does it handle hierarchical data which allows us to model the real world more accurately, but it handles units natively.  I can’t express how much easier that has made our life, and how it will continue to as we get ready to deploy “unit-ification” on WattzOn — through that, every place you see a number or have to enter a number, you will be able to choose what units you want to see it in.

We haven’t officially released (or, more importantly, documented) how to access data programatically from holmz — but, as you can see on our front page, we’re starting to drop massive hints on how to get data out of holmz and onto other places on the web.  We’re working on lots of different methods to do it, but the most stable way right now is to make use of our holmz.bluff.min.js Javascript library which allows you to query holmz and then visualize that data using Bluff.

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While we’re in our rapid iteration state, we’re changing things like mad on holmz.org.  To help us all internally follow along, note that the version number is now on the top right hand portion of every page — for example, right now, holmz.org is running v10.07, meaning its running a build deployed on October 7th.  Have fun guessing what changes we make with each new build!

We’re gearing ourselves up, quite literally, with holmz.org apparel from Zazzle (we love our t-shirts over at Synthesis).  Its nothing fancy yet, and we’ll probably have others up when we (finally) take a break from holmz development.  Feel free to get yourself a T!