Projects

Live projects, services, and tools created by the EchoDitto Labs team

DC Metro Status for iPhone

For those of us who ride the metro regularly, knowing when the next train will arrive before you enter the station is a major convenience.

In the storied tradition of the original Meenster, this service simply scrapes the WMATA website and wraps it in Joe Hewitt's excellent iPhone CSS.

Click here to find your train status

PDF Form Filler

Do you have to populate a lot of PDF forms? We've found a simple way.
PDF Form Filler

WeatherMama

Miss when Mom used to remind you to bring your hat?

WeatherMama is a simple service that will send you the forecast via SMS so you'll know to bring that umbrella when you head out the door to work.

WeatherMama utilizes the NOAA's SOAP Web service to grab a 12-hour forecast of temperatures, cloud cover, wind and precipitation.

Head on over, create your profile and have WeatherMama start nagging you today!

Environments module for Drupal

Environments Project Page

We created the Environments module (shortname Envts) to manage a "two-dimensional" site environment for a client site, and then abstracted the code into an API-type module.
Drupal is fairly good at running multi-site builds, with sites folders and different settings.php files. Modules like Domain Access are good at managing those sites one-dimensionally - a single list of hosts with primary (mysite.com), secondary (special.mysite.com), etc, and deep integration with Views and other modules.

But this single list of sites is built for one environment: one set of domains, such as for a live site.