Tasks Pro™ Archives

  1. Product and Support Pricing

    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…

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  2. Tasks Pro™ 1.7 rc1 and Tasks 2.7 rc1

    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…

  3. Docs = Procrastion

    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…

  4. Tasks Pro™ 1.7 beta 6 and Tasks 2.7 beta 6

    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…

  5. Tasks Testers Needed

    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…

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  6. Docs, docs, docs

    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…

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  7. Tasks Pro™ 1.7 beta 5 and Tasks 2.7 beta 5

    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…

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  8. “Fun” IE Bug

    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…

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  9. Leopard Thoughts

    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…

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  11. Tasks Pro™ 1.7 beta 3 and Tasks 2.7 beta 3

    I’ve released beta 3 of Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks 2.7. This release includes a number of changes based on the feedback received on the tagging functionality, as well as a number of tweaks and bug fixes. I look forward to your feedback on these adjustments. Some of the changes include: Option to turn off…

  12. Before Next Beta

    Based on the feedback received, i’ve given myself a healthy list of things to add before the next beta release of Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks 2.7: Option to turn off tagging completely. Option to hide tags if none exist for a task/note. Add tags to RSS Feeds. Add tags to iCalendars. Add RSS Feeds…

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  13. Announcing PHP Tag Engine

    PHP Tag Engine is a PHP library that makes it easy to add tagging to a PHP application. Some of the features include: Full AJAX front-end. Easy integration into existing applications. Built-in support for the Yahoo! Auto-Complete library. Built-in cache to minimize database queries. Fully documented in PHP Doc format. This is, of course, what…

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  14. Tasks Pro™ 1.7 beta 2 and Tasks 2.7 beta 2

    I’ve released a second beta of the .7 releases for Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. This fixes a few bugs that were reported in the first beta releases and adds tagging to the mobile interface. I’m still looking for feedback on the way tagging works1 – should I assume that no feedback means people like it?…

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  15. You Know You’ve Got a Lot of Features When…

    Yesterday I got an e-mail from a Tasks Pro™ customer who wanted to know how to be able to make tasks he creates visible to groups he isn’t a member of1. My initial reaction was that this wasn’t possible, that he had to be a member of the groups to give them access2. However, before…