Dougal is 94% Dixie. I’m 53% Dixie – guess that’s about what I’d expect growing up in Seattle with parents from the South. A Halliburton whistleblower… this just seems like a horrible situation getting worse. I like Yahoo’s new search results (#3) better than Google’s new results (#24) for my ‘alex’ ego-search. In barely related…
February, 2004
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I had an interesting e-mail conversation today with a fellow interested in a leased license of Tasks Pro (as an additional pricing option). There are several software packages that use this model. It’s an interesting idea; basically, this would allow you to buy a monthly usage license. I’m reluctant to offer this option at the…
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One of the interesting things about releasing Tasks Pro™ is the response I’ve gotten to the pricing. It’s been pretty much split 50/50. I get some people wondering why software that does so much is so cheap (they wonder if it really works) and other people who see it as too expensive. I guess that…
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I found another annoying Safari bug today. If you dynamically write an empty textarea element into a page, Safari self-closes the tag. This is illegal with a textarea tag. Safari actually knows it’s illegal since the next time you try to write one, it has to close the first one before opening the second one……
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I’ve been using DropZip (no link for you) for all my, um, zipping for as long as I can remember – no more! Packaging up Tasks Pro™ at 1.4mb zipped was taking 2-3 minutes per archive – it was driving me nuts! On top of that, I was getting reports from WinZip users that they…
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I finally got around to changing all of my target=”_blank” links to rel=”external”. Using a similar technique to the previous database cleanup, I ran these queries through PHPMyAdmin. Fix Posts: UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE(post_content ,’ target=”_blank”‘ ,’ rel=”external”‘ ); Fix Comments: UPDATE wp_comments SET comment_content = REPLACE(comment_content ,’ target=”_blank”‘ ,” ); Now the…
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If you had been discussing lenses with Jason tonight like I was, you probably would have had to read about understanding MTF charts as well. The $.10 tour… MTF charts are really good ways to: Understand the strengths and weaknesses of a specific lens. Compare lenses you are considering aquiring. Justify spending more money on…
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I got the new Vienna Teng and Indigo Girls discs today – very good stuff. I’d heard a lot of the songs on Vienna’s new CD Warm Strangers already, and they sound great in polished CD form. Often I prefer the debut album of most artists to their sophmore effort (they’ve generally had longer to…
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I posted a few weeks back regarding encoding options for Tasks Pro™. In the end, I decided to go with a PHP obfuscation solution instead of an encoded solution and to only encode a the code which enforces the number of users allowed by the purchased license. I also decided to allow modification of the…
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It’s been a very busy day… I had my first sale, signed up 20 groups to free trials and had over 1000 visits to the taskspro.com web site (by unique IP address). I was hoping a few more people would have purchased today (considering the amount of e-mail I’d gotten over the last year asking…
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I have released Tasks Pro™ 1.0! Tasks Pro™ brings the long-awaited multi-user functionality to Tasks. A partial list of changes from Tasks 1.x is here. The Tasks Pro™ web site has an in-depth list of features, screenshots, an on-line demo populated with demo data and some real documentation! I’ve been working extremely hard on this…
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Tasks Pro™ 1.0 has been released! Finally, the long-awaited multi-user version of Tasks is here.
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If you copy of a copy of a copy of a CD… to 100 copies, the last one is bit for bit the same as the original. At least in this test. I like the way Jon Hicks has connected related buttons in his new Safari Buttons. The php|architech blog has a good take on…
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One of the things I wanted to have for the Tasks Pro™ launch is a demo that is already populated with a real usage scenario. A couple of users, inter-related tasks, stuff like that. I enlisted my Mom’s help in entering the demo data; she works for a consulting company and created a great scenario…
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I’ve created a Yahoo Group for Tasks Pro™ for anyone interested in signing up. This post is part of the project: Tasks Pro™. View the project timeline for more context on this post.