I started working on packaging Tasks 2.0 yesterday, I expect to have a public beta ready in the next 2 weeks. I’ve had a few e-mails recently asking what new features will be included from 1.8.5, I’ve pointed them to these two posts (though I will pull together a cohesive list before I release). This…
March, 2004
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I’ve released Tasks Pro™ 1.1 beta 1 to the sponsors and customers who have opted to take part in beta testing. This version adds some good new features – it’s nice to be adding incremental documentation and building on the 1.0 system instead of starting from scratch like I did in 1.0. The beta versions…
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I’ve released PHP Doc System version 1.5. This includes the features and upgrades I made to the system when using it to build the Tasks Pro™ 1.0 documentation. Here is a quick overview of the changes: Added ‘Related Links’ sidebar Created module generator page Default and generated source is now XHTML compliant More semantically accurate…
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PHP Doc System Version 1.5 has been released.
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I recently noticed some folks hotlinking to photos here on this site. Hotlinking is bad form, plus my bandwidth has been up a bit lately and this isn’t helping. A quick search turned up this site which creates the mod_rewrite rules for you to either reject the hotlink request or (as I chose to do)…
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YAGNI is a term I was unaware of though I strongly believe in it. A pixel-perfect Safari skin for Firefox. Except the close icons for the tabs are on the right where the should be. Don’t believe your eyes – this is amazing. When to use Definition Lists. How to create unmaintainable code. Make sure…
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Got up to g0 house shopping (3rd trip so far) in the morning at 7:30am, participated in a charity bowl-a-thon in the afternoon and just got back from going out in downtown Denver in the evening… I’m beat. 🙂 The house-hunting is a lot of fun but also a bit of stress. The biggest question…
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A few months ago I was chatting with Dunstan about some navigation changes he was making on his site and I started thinking hard about the standard navigation elements on a blog. Most blogs have these standard internal navigation elements: Archives by month/week Categories Search Calendar Other common elements that aren’t quite as universal are:…
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Several people have e-mailed me lately asking when the single user version will be updated. I’ve decided to finish adding features to Tasks Pro 1.1 first then release Tasks 2.0, the single user version that includes the improvements I made in Tasks Pro 1.0 and 1.1 (except the multi-user functionality). Tasks 2.0 will also be…
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I’ve received and posted Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese translations for Tasks Pro 1.0 (to go along with the existing English and German translations). I expect more translations will be coming in the next few weeks. Language downloads are available on the Support page. My sincere thanks to my wonderful translators, you guys do a great…
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I’m working on the UI in Tasks and Tasks Pro to track how long a task took. This is one of the most requested features and one I almost put into Tasks Pro 1.0. I actually did put the back-end code in place, but didn’t add it to the task form. So now I’m building…
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I ran my browsers through these JavaScript benchmark tests. All tests ran on my 1ghz PowerBook G4. Very surprising results: Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 Test 5 Test 6 Test 7 Total Camino 0.7 2.042 1.378 2.521 1.656 0.680 8.890 1.966 19.130 Firefox 0.8 18.011 4.161 2.371 1.944 0.756 12.613 2.160 42.020…
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The Tasks Pro™ web site is my first XHTML 1.1 compliant web site. I think this is the way to go if you are building a new site right now (or if you have an existing site and and totally re-skinning it). Should you rewrite an existing HTML 4.x site as XHTML 1.1? Probably, if…