Re: Rate my weekend project, Thursday Flowers: a thoughtfuln...
by adamfblahblah on Monday March 14, 2011 @02:42PM
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Every user gets a random idea from a a database of ideas; there's maybe 40 ideas in the DB for each combination of genders. We have some logic that prevents you from getting the same suggestion twice in a row, and in a branch we've yet to merge we've added a link to the emails that lets the user get a new suggestion.
We've got Big Plans(tm) to add user accounts that will let users than customize their own suggestion list.
"Bob gave you flowers last wednesday? and a card on Monday? Frank did the EXACT same thing!" (etc.)