Dusty Davidson from BrightMix writes in about some creative Campfire tricks:
Absolutely love Campfire, almost to a fault though! I run a web development company, BrightMix, and we hired a bunch of interns for the summer to help us launch a web app. Obviously everyone uses Campfire, but its been funny watching the usage go up, from when we were just a 2 person shop, to a 7 person shop.One of our interns took some initiative and wrote a spider to go back through and parse the history, and GRAPH our usage!
Anyway... dumb, but kinda fun. Thought you might enjoy.
The Brightmix campfire usage graph (larger version).
You can download the spider from BrightMix too.
Autocomplete function
That post also mentions the nifty little name autocomplete function that Campfire offers. Hit the @ key and the first letter of someone's name and it will fill in their entire name:
Probably my favorite, undocumented feature, of Campfire is using the @ in chat to auto-complete someones name. It is something I have found myself using in other chats besides Campfire, just to find that it does not complete their name for me!
Note: If more than one person in the room have names that start with the same letter, just keep typing. For example, if a room has Jason and Jennifer in it, type "@jas" and Campfire will fill in Jason (the popup will show you what will appear). Or you can use initials, like "@JB" for Jamis Buck.
