You may have noticed that my ‘Around the web’ posts have gotten a little longer in the past few weeks. The reason for this isn’t that I’m reading more or seeing more interesting tid bits on a weekly basis, it is mainly due to an improved toolset. I’ve set up a couple of scripts that…
July, 2004
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I’ve released Photos 4.1rc3. More people have started working on translations which has helped me catch additional strings that had slipped through the cracks. Changes in this release Translated a more strings that had slipped through (all the JavaScript strings in particular, oops!). Date picker changes months properly when a number of months other than…
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I finally got the beta discussion and announcement mailing lists set up for Tasks and Tasks Pro™. http://lists.alexking.org/ I’ll start releasing betas of the next major versions pretty soon, so if you’re a customer that wants to take part in the early testing and feature discussion, join the appropriate beta mailing list. I’d still like…
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Photos Version 4.1 release candidate 3 has been posted.
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Brent recently posted about the web’s influence on UI design. I’d e-mailed him about this a little while back after I was unable to locate some of NetNewsWire‘s functionality because it existed solely in the menus. I now expect all major functions and view options to be presented right in the UI, not only accessible…
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I’ve posted new German language files for Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. Of course, these have been added to the Use Tasks accounts as well. Thank you Jens Miltner for the translations. This post is part of the project: Tasks Pro™. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
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If you are running MySQL queries from PHP and include the semi-colon in the SQL query, your query will run just fine on a MySQL 4 database but will fail on a MySQL 3 database. This doesn’t work in MySQL 3: $sql = “SELECT * FROM foo;”; but this does: $sql = “SELECT * FROM…
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ARBITRATOR: A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonalds AVOIDABLE: What a bullfighter tried to do BERNADETTE: The act of torching a mortgage BURGLARIZE: What a crook sees with CONTROL: A short, ugly inmate COUNTERFEITERS: Workers who put together kitchen cabinets ECLIPSE: What an English barber does for a living EYEDROPPER: A clumsy ophthalmologist…
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I’m enjoying spending time coding new features again. I’ve already added several new features for the next release of Tasks Pro™: The first one I implemented was one of the most commonly requested: a preference to let new tasks inherit their groups from their parent task. This is rather trivial when you’re creating a sub-task…
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I received 2 books from my Amazon wish list today: Geof got me Database Design for Mere Mortals. He read it and thought I could use it – what a guy! Philip got me Getting Things Done, which had been recommended to me by several folks as containing ideas I could integrate into my software.…
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Matt describes how he turns off an annoying feature of IE. I certainly understand where he’s coming from (I hate the image toolbar and turn it off in IE’s options on every PC I use), but breaking standard browser behavior is a mistake. When people come to your site, they are still using their browser…
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We’ve added a 10 User Account option over at Use Tasks. Several people asked for this so we’ve added it. This post is part of the project: Tasks Pro™. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
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Quick test of Canon’s new EOS View Utility Daring Fireball: Konfab Confab Eric has posted another trip journal: ECHENG.COM: Manta Shark Fishing Research, Ecuador, June 2004. People tend not to care about sharks because they aren’t considered to be “cute,” but removing the top predator in any ecosystem is a catastrophic move. Hyatt: On Extending…
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I really don’t understand why people want to disable comments on old posts. I see people wanting to do this in the WordPress forums and on various blogs (and in comments). There is even a WordPress plugin for this. This seems like a better approach to me. Comment spam is like e-mail spam, any solution…
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An IP lawyer was kind enough to take the time to share some knowledge with me. I was quite impressed with the way he boiled this down to something I could understand. Here is a transcript: Lawyer: Ok, first of all. The GPL is just a contract. It says if you do X (publish any…