I’m very proud to announce the launch of FavePersonal; a WordPress theme designed for personal websites. I have been using (and building and…
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 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…
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…
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…
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?…
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…
I’ve made the first beta releases of Tasks Pro™ 1.7 and Tasks 2.7 available. I’m going to take the advice of my customers and release the .7 versions with the current features rather than continuing to add features and further delay the releases. New features in the .7 versions include: Tagging! Adding closing notes when…
For accesskeys to work in IE, the element must be visible1, and containing elements must be visible. I’m not sure if this is a recent change in IE or if I changed my code somewhere along the way without realizing the effect it would have in IE. Here is a simple test case demonstrating this.…
I’ve been trying to fix a problem my international customers have been experiencing with the “create tasks from e-mails” feature in the current versions of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. I think I’ve got it working properly now, though tangental bugs from other encoding types wouldn’t exactly shock me. What does surprise me is that the…
In our early alpha of FeedLounge we had implemented auto-complete for tags – similar to what you see in the Gmail “to” field and in Google Suggest. I now have the same functionality need for the tagging coming in the next release of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. We ended up ripping it out because the…
Version numbers are cheap. I just pushed out a Tasks Pro™ 1.7 alpha 3 that fixes a few bugs. There is a new alpha 3 forum thread too.
I’ve released a second preview (alpha) release of Tasks Pro™ 1.7. Let me stress that this is an early development preview release. It almost certainly has some bugs, and could behave in unexpected ways. Make a backup before you upgrade. There is also no documentation yet for the tagging features that have been added. You’ve…
Tasks Pro™ 1.7 alpha 1 is now available. I’ve had tagging completely implemented in Tasks Pro™ (in various incarnations) for about a month now, and I think it works pretty well. Let me stress that this is an early development preview release. It almost certainly has some bugs, and could cause all sorts of problems…
I had lunch with Danny today and took the opportunity to ask for some feedback/help with the tagging interface I’ve implemented for the next release of Tasks Pro™. I’d already re-done the tagging interface 3 times, and I’m still not satisfied with it. Trying to walk the line between consistency and subtlety with a feature…
I’ve released new version of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. These are patch releases, not adding any new functionality. Naturally, just after I went on vacation a couple of bug reports came in – several dealing with MS SQL Server compatibility and installation. According to the customers who tested for me (thank you!), these releases fix…
I did a little testing of Google Calendar today and found that the iCalendars created by Tasks Pro™ and Tasks work just fine. Unfortunately, Google Calendar doesn’t seem to support 401 authenticated iCalendars just yet, so you have to choose the URL based authentication option for your Tasks Pro™ or Tasks iCalendar. There is already…
Another little hint at one of the things I’ve been working on lately.
I went through and created PHP Documentor formatted documentation for the code I’ve got so far for the little OS project I hinted at a few weeks ago. I’m considering doing this for Tasks Pro as well, creating a developer’s kit to sell as an add on. I’ve been using the Zend Studio on Mac…
I’ve made some good headway on a new feature for the next release of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. This is one of the first times I’m basically writing all the code completely separately from the existing codeline (I’m building it as a standalone library) and will then integrate it once it’s pretty much done. I’m…
Yesterday WordPress version 2.0.2 was released, fixing several security issues. If you haven’t upgraded already, you should go do so. I spent most of my Friday upgrading WordPress installations (this blog, my Golf blog, the FeedLounge site and the King Design site). For the most part, everything went smoothly – however there were a few…
I’ve posted additional maintenence releases of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. These release fix reported bugs in the previous .6 releases. Changes in both Tasks Pro™ and Tasks: Annual recurring tasks are created properly. iCalendars properly include completed tasks. The “Server Time Difference” setting is used for the Upcoming screen. When deleting a parent task, apply…
All Use Tasks accounts have been upgraded to the latest releases of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. Enjoy!
I got halfway through upgrading the Use Tasks accounts and got locked out of the #%%$ing server. Unfortunately, calls to the server admin have gone unanswered, so Use Tasks will unfortunately be offline until I can get back into the server. My guess is that will be sometime after the server admin wakes up and…
The latest releases of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks now have the following language packs available: English French German Japanese Norwegian Spanish If you’d like to contribute a language, I’ve got a translation kit to try to make it easy for you. Now that I’ve got all the language files that are in use by customers…
Ah, the inevitable .1 releases. These are bug fix releases, addressing issues found in the Tasks Pro™ 1.6 and Tasks 2.6 releases. Changes in both Tasks Pro™ and Tasks: “Forgot Password” feature works properly. Future recurring tasks are properly deleted upon request. The syntax in the last 2 CRON examples in the documentation for checking…
In yesterday’s release announcement, I forgot to mention that there is now a free web hosting offer for all Tasks Pro™ and Tasks customers. ThinkHost and Austin Web Development are each offering 3 months of free hosting to all Tasks Pro™ and Tasks customers. I took a look at the set-up of the web hosting…