Posts on: Wednesday, June 9th, 2004

Custom Development

Posted in: Development, Tasks Pro™, WordPress

I’ve been working on a few custom development projects in the last few weeks. The WordPress implementation I mentioned previously is pretty close to going live and I’ve just finished adding some custom functionality to Tasks Pro™ for a customer.

One of the features I added to Tasks Pro™ for this customer will be rolled back into the main codeline: the ability to show the a breadcrumb trail for sub-tasks in lists, e-mail notifications and reminders, RSS feeds and iCalendars. Several people requested like this in the old Tasks Yahoo Group. I won’t be turning it on by default because it hurts performance (it needs extra database queries), but I’m sure some people will use it and like it.

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Posted Wednesday June 9th, 2004 @ 6:40 PM

Trackback Timestamps

Posted in: WordPress

Geof posted about Trackback Comment Timestamping and it seemed like a trackback was more appropriate than a comment. :)

Geof asks why the timestamp on the trackback is the time the trackback is received (as a comment) instead of the time the post (being sent as a trackback) was posted. I can think of several reasons:

  1. The trackback participates in the comment discussion timeline, so it is important that it appear in the proper place in the timeline as it might reference previous comments and future comments may reference it.
  2. A trackback from an old entry could be sent as a response to a new entry, you wouldn’t necessarily want the date on that trackback to be several months before the post that is receiving the trackback (and the comment timeline issue previously mentioned).
  3. There is no way to keep the post date/time and the trackback comment date/time in sync. If someone alters the post date/time, the trackback date/time will not reflect this change anyway.
  4. As a last note, I’m not sure the post date/time is even sent with the trackback info.

I’d be happy to hear more arguments on either side in the comments (or in Geof’s comments).

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Posted Wednesday June 9th, 2004 @ 1:42 PM

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