I’m very pleased to share version 2.5 of Social with you. Brought to you by our good friends at MailChimp (see their blog post), Social is a…
Fellow Colorado web geeks, I made you a t-shirt. The code that comprises the white stripe is a full, working HTML page with canvas code that draws…
It’s been very interesting to me to see how some folks are re-evaluating their work/life balance in the wake of reading Isaacson’s Steve…
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…
Software pricing is an interesting art. To me, one of the more interesting aspects of it is how the correct price of a product is affected not only by supply and demand and what the market will bear, but also by things like how many customers you have and the size of your company’s customer…
Whoohoo! Release candidate 1 of Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks 2.7 is now available for download. This has a few small changes since beta 6, notably: Full documentation of new features! iCalendar and RSS links are shown on the Tags screen. Tag auto-complete works on sub-tasks that are expanded after the page is loaded. Back…
I finally finished writing all the new docs for Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks 2.7, but I still need to take (and re-shoot) a bunch of screenshots. The first release candidates will, unfortunately, have to wait until next week. The good news is that very few issues (and no major issues) have been reported with…
I’ve decided to get one more beta release out before the release candidates I planned to push out next week. The changes in this version are small, but potentially significant: Reduce the number of CSS and JS files being downloaded per page. GZIP the page and much of the CSS and JS being downloaded. Updated…
One of my customers reported experiencing slowness with the pre-release of Tasks 2.7. I believe the reason for the performance hit is the additional JavaScript files that are included with the Yahoo! Auto-Complete feature, and I’ve coded up a quick hack to fix this. It all works fine for me, but I am quite wary…
Writing documentation is not high up the “fun ways to spend my time” list. It is however, an important part of any software package – especially if you don’t have a support team. Generally it is good practice to have someone who is not the developer write the docs; the developer is often too close…
I’ve put up the beta 5 releases of Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks 2.7. These releases have a few bug fixes: Date range searches work properly. Searching by “private” task works properly (Tasks Pro™ only). Tags screen “works” in IE now. Tag feeds and iCalendars work properly. Added character set explicitly to iCalendar. E-mail subject…
So in the current beta releases of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks (1.7b4 and 2.7b4 respectively) there is an IE only bug that makes the list of tags on the tags screen look like this: instead of like this: Being the CSS expert that I am, I looked at all the HTML and CSS rules and…
Apple’s WWDC keynote announcements yesterday about Leopard have been talked about pretty much everywhere, but there are a few things I wanted to touch on: ToDos I was asked, so I’ll answer. I don’t see the ToDos and Notes implementation in Mail.app as a competitor to Tasks. My target audience is generally “folks who want…
I’ve uploaded beta 4 of Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks 2.7. This release fixes a few bugs that were reported in the beta 3 releases including one in PHP Tag Engine that caused the install/upgrade to fail. Sorry about that.