Applications

MYSTIC PASTE
Ever since Wicket came on the frameworks scene, we fell in love with it. As a team we really wanted to teach a larger and growing audience about how to get started with the framework. MysticPaste.com became the sample application used in 5 Days of Wicket that we ended up hosting and releasing as our favorite pastebin.

MYSTIC LOUNGE
We’ve written, and re-written this one as it seems to be a good learning experience for any new technology that comes along. This basic application shows the user a simple upload form, asks for an email address to send to, and ships off a unique URL for pick-up on the other end. We really hate getting sent 10MB+ attachments with PSD’s or your companies entire database, it’s really just not okay and not safe.

GROWL-NET-NOTIFY
Here at Mystic, we do a lot of remote work using IRC. And due to the heavy use of best of breed tools under OSX and Linux, we find ourselves working in a shell a lot of the day, along with our IDE. We like to keep in the Flow state for as much of the time working as possible, so we turn off things like email notifications, twitter popups, and other such annoyances.

KICKBAN TIMEOUT
Mystic folks are always hanging out on IRC, and we sometimes need tools to manage the clue deprived folks that saunter in. For this we give you what parents call a “timeout!”, treat your channel to silence for a set number of seconds and hope they’ve learned their lesson.

YAMMER FOR JAVABOT
We have a lot of folks that like to work remotely, and here at Mystic we say “Yes!”. In order to manage the constant flow of communication without resorting to the evils of e-mail, we’ve grown found of Yammer. The application is basically Twitter for business, and we’ve been busy integrating some important communication tools to give us statuses using Yammer as it makes sense. Our Javabot that runs on IRC is definitely one of those.