I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
How to best provide support for the software you create is an interesting point of deliberation. I’ve gone through various stages and…
I’ve long maintained two Tasks Pro databases. This made little sense—even though one of them ostensibly had lots of people helping me out in my hobby involved, I was the main one using it. I finally got to neglecting the hobby database, to lots of bad effects. BAD effects. So I decided to merge them. This took some planning and some execution, so I wrote it up as I did it as a tutorial for someone else crazy enough to make the same move.
Great write up from Geof.
The Use Tasks service is going down in about 5 minutes for planned upgrades to the latest releases of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks™. I’ll update this post once it’s complete. UPDATE 9:33PM PST: All accounts have been upgraded and are now running Tasks Pro™ 1.7.1/Tasks™ 2.7.1.
I’ve released new versions of Tasks Pro™ (1.7.1) and Tasks™ (2.7.1). These fix a variety of minor bugs in versions 1.7 and 2.7 respectively and are the first versions released under the Crowd Favorite name. I think I’ve caught all the links/name changes but let me know if any have slipped through the cracks. Here…
I’ve posted release candidates of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks™, both are bug fix releases addressing issues found in the 1.7 and 2.7 releases respectively. I’m quite pleased that the .7 releases were very solid, not requiring any immediate .1 follow-up releases, however there are a number of little issues that have been fixed in the…
As I mentioned previously, I now own the tasks.biz domain. I didn’t go looking for it, I was approached in late 2005 by the fellow who owned the domain asking if I’d be interested in buying it. My reaction was basically: I don’t need it now, but it seems like something that could be useful…
The Use Tasks service will be going offline as planned in a few minutes for upgrades. I’ll update this post when the upgrades are complete. UPDATE: We took the Use Tasks service offline for a couple of hours tonight to perform a variety of upgrades: All multi-user accounts have been upgraded to Tasks Pro™ 1.7.…
I’ve updated the free trials of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks™ to include the five languages currently available for the 1.7 and 2.7 releases. New trial sign-ups (existing trials were not altered) will be able to use: English (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8) French German (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8) Norwegian Spanish Tasks Pro™ and Tasks™ customers can also download…
With the 1.7 release, I’ve moved the primary home of my Tasks Pro™ product from: http://www.taskspro.com to: http://crowdfavorite.net/tasks-pro/ I thought it might be interesting (instructive?) to review the reasons for this, and how I got into the situation in the first place. When I launched alexking.org back in 2002, I put up some of my…
Whoohoo! Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks™ 2.7 have now been officially released! New features: Tagging! Per tag RSS feeds. Per tag iCalendars. Searching and browsing by tag. Editing and appending tags to multiple tasks at once. Globally edit tag names. Globally delete tags. Showing the “Closing Notes” form when the Mark Complete button is clicked…
I finally launched the new King Design store and premium support options this past weekend. The new store page allows customers to choose any/all products they want to buy, including support and installation service, then check out in a single transaction. Checking out in a single transaction was possible before, but you had to know…
My customers are getting restless waiting for the new releases of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks – I don’t blame them, it’s months past the my original planned release date. The good news is that things are very close now. I gave up on my work data recovery last week and I’m pretty much done re-doing…
These releases have pretty minor changes, but I still have about a week’s worth of set-up and prep work to get the on-line demo’s and trials upgraded, along with new screenshots for the the web site and the new support system. I figured I might as well get what will probably be the official releases…
I received the following inquiry from a fellow that wants to use the mobile interface for Tasks (this applies for Tasks Pro™ users as well) with his BlackBerry: For those who use stylus based PDAs/phones (e.g., Treos) this isn’t an issue because the screen is larger. I’m a longtime PocketPC user until recently. But when…
With IE 7 out, I’ll be taking a little time (another week or so) to make sure the new versions of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks don’t have any issues there before the upcoming releases. A slight delay, but probably a worthwhile one. I haven’t seen any isues yet in my light testing, but that doesn’t…
I’ve made Tasks Pro™ 1.7rc2 and Tasks 2.7rc2 available for download. These releases have a few minor changes since the rc1 versions: PostgreSQL 8 compatibility changes. MS SQL tagging compatibility changes. Reduce server load when creating RSS feeds and iCalendars for a task and all sub-tasks. Add compatibility for an alternative e-mail attachment format (e-mail…