Being self-employed has really curtailed my tech-toy spending habits, but I decided to splurge on the new keyboard I was so excited about. I’ve been spending 10-16 hours a day on the computer so I figured it was reasonable to improve my working conditions. 🙂 I ended up ordering the Kensington StudioBoard Mechanical Keyboard instead…
April, 2004
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Our quest to rid the house of brass/gold fixtures continues. After today’s work, we’ve replaced 71 cabinet door/drawer knobs, 7 door knobs, added 2 fake door knobs to the side of the french doors on the study that the latch goes into, replaced the light over the sink in the downstairs bathroom, replaced 4 dome…
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We closed on our new house yesterday. Today we bought a ladder, a step stool, 60 new cabinet drawer pulls/knobs and started making the place our own. Tomorrow we’re replacing door knobs. Out with the gold/brass, in with the silver. Also, I couldn’t resist buying the coolest exacto knife I’d ever seen. I think we’ve…
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I get complaints from time to time from people who say they have trouble reading the text on my site. I’ve added a little style menu up in the upper right corner to let you choose a darker background and/or larger font. It works in my browsers, let me know if it doesn’t work in…
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I forgot to mention a change to the task timer feature I made in the new releases of Tasks and Tasks Pro™. The task timer isn’t something I’m going to use much, but people asked for it so I threw it in. However like most features, you don’t think them all the way through in…
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I’ve released new betas of Tasks 2.0 and Tasks Pro™: Tasks 2.0 beta 4 and Tasks Pro™ 1.1 beta 5. Changes in these versions include: Tasks 2.0 & Tasks Pro™ Fixed SQL typo (missing `) in last beta. Strip slashes from the name of the file being added to a task before inserting it in…
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I’ve released tasks 1.8.6. This has a few minor changes including updated documentation links and links to the new forums in the default task data. This release also includes a change to the authentication method in PHP iCalendar from 1.8.5 that should be more reliable if you have protected your tasks install with a .htaccess…
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We’ve got forums: https://alexking.org/forums/ The forums are running on the excellent PunBB package. I made a couple of mods (and still plan to do some tweaking to the built in RSS feeds for the forums to include more information), but they are up and running and it is the new place for support, feature requests…
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Tasks Pro 1.1 beta 5 released.
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tasks Version 1.8.6 has been released. This adds PHP iCalendar version 1.1 and changes the .htaccess authentication method in PHP iCalendar.
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I’ve decided to cobble a ‘best of breed’ solution together for my forums and mailing lists. I’m happy about this decision as I really liked and wanted to use PunBB. The mailing list integration code will be a good learning experience for me and I’ll probably be able to leverage some of that code in…
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A must read for all you computer engineers out there. The importance of fudgability is something I practiced when creating the automated systems running on taskspro.com. Definitely something to keep in mind next time you go to automate something. Apache 2 and PHP issues and discussion. A photography gear-head lightens his load. A good article…
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My previous post has gotten a lot of good comments and responses. I’ve also gotten a dozen replies from an e-mail I sent out to my current beta testers asking for their thoughts, and I’ve had several discussions over IM during the day. More throughts and comments are welcome, but I feel like I’ve got…
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With the upcoming release of Tasks 2.0 and a steady stream of people buying Tasks Pro™, I’m trying to decide how best to handle beta, support and feature discussions. The options I’m currently looking at: Yahoo Groups Pros: I already have these in place with people signed up and using them. The e-mail notifications are…
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You’ve probably already seen most of these, but here is a great list of April Fools links.