Tasks Pro™ Archives

  1. Use Tasks Lockout

    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…

  2. More Languages Available

    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…

  3. Tasks Pro™ 1.6.1 and Tasks 2.6.1 Released

    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…

  4. Free Hosting Offer

    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…

  5. Tasks Pro™ 1.6 and Tasks 2.6 Released!

    I have released Tasks Pro™ 1.6 and Tasks 2.6 – they are available for download immediately from the King Design download page and free trials and demos are also immediately available. Tasks Pro™: Online Demo, Free Trial Tasks: Online Demo, Free Trial These releases add a number of great features: Create tasks from e-mails. Tell…

  6. Where are the .6 releases?

    I hope to have the long incubated Tasks Pro™ 1.6 and Tasks 2.6 releases out next week. The software has been ready for a while now, the hold up has been finding 2 days to do all the release related stuff: set up the demos, the free trials and upgrade the Use Tasks accounts.

  7. Tasks Pro™ 1.6rc2 and Tasks 2.6rc2

    I’ve posted the second release candidates for Tasks Pro™ 1.6 and Tasks 2.6. There are a few bug fixes in these releases, no new features. Changes in both Tasks Pro™ and Tasks: Upgraded HTML toolbar the the latest version of the JS Quicktags. Fixed several hard-coded strings to allow for translation. Changes in Tasks Pro™:…

  8. Tasks Pro™ 1.6rc1 and Tasks 2.6rc1

    I’ve posted the first release candidates for Tasks Pro™ 1.6 and Tasks 2.6. There are a few changes in these releases since the last beta releases. Important note: If you were previously using a beta version of a .6 release, one of these changes (the addition of the billable option for tasks created from e-mails)…

  9. Tasks From E-mails

    I’m surprised at how useful I’m finding the new “create task from e-mail” feature in the upcoming release of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. This was a frequently requested feature, but not one that I thought I’d use that much myself. Turns out, I was wrong. I haven’t yet set up any automatic task creation from…

  10. Tasks Pro™ 1.6b5 and Tasks 2.6b2

    I’ve released Tasks Pro™ 1.6 beta 5 and Tasks 2.6 beta 2. These releases fix bugs found and reported in the previous beta versions. These should be pretty stable – I expect the next releases to be release candidates. Changes in both Tasks Pro™ and Tasks: Changed the upgrade script so that it works with…

  11. Nasty PHP Oddity

    The current release versions of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks suffer from a nasty PHP oddity in their daily recurring task functionality. When you create a recurring task in Tasks Pro™/Tasks, all future occurrences are created in the database, and they are activated over time. I used a very basic system to set the dates on…

  12. Tasks Pro™ 1.6b4 and Tasks 2.6b1

    I’ve released Tasks Pro™ 1.6 beta 4 and Tasks 2.6 beta 1. These releases brings a few minor changes in Tasks Pro™ and adds the new features for the .6 release (create tasks from e-mails, unofficial support for PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server) to Tasks. Changes since Tasks Pro™ 1.6 beta 3: Updated documentation, each…

  13. Merging

    I’ve spent a few days last week and this weekend merging the Tasks 2.5.2 code with the current Tasks Pro™ 1.6 beta code in preparation to release a beta version of Tasks 2.6. This will have all the new features that Tasks Pro™ 1.6 introduces (create tasks from e-mails, unofficial support for PostgreSQL and MS…