So ends my first year of self employment and my first year in a new town. 2004 has been great, I’m looking forward to 2005.
December, 2004
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I’m very pleased to have the first release candidates for Tasks Pro™ 1.5 and Tasks 2.5 out before the new year. Here are the changes in both versions: There is now a Timer Running icon that appears in the tree view for tasks who have a timer active. There is a new search option to…
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You ever have one of those days where you’re working constantly but your list never seems to get any shorter? I keep finding more and more things I need to do before this next release and I want to get the release out ASAP. Yuck.
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The little pup was a champ at her puppy class graduation today. She received the ‘most responsive to commands’ award and she won the the ‘best trick’ category. The winning trick was as follows: Lie down I put a liver treat on each of her paws I tell her to leave it She sits there…
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One of the things I love about being an indy developer is the lack of deadlines. My old co-workers and I used to say: You can have a date driven release or a feature (quality) driven release; you can’t have both. I have not once regretted choosing to do feature (quality) driven releases for my…
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Browsers Preferred by Weblog Readers Blowing Up the A’s — The Hardball Times Saft v7.4.0 New feature: Undo support in HTML TextArea and TextField The Fishbowl: On Threading The Fishbowl: Ringtone etiquette …every phone has precisely one (1) default tone that doesn’t sound like arse. RSS Bandwidth Strategies – follow about 10 links deep on…
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The puppy has lost 3 molars in the last 2 days, and lost one of her canines the day before… we’ve got little doggie teeth flying all over the place. 🙂
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One particular Christmas a long time ago, Santa was getting ready for his annual trip….but there were problems everywhere. Four of his elves got sick, and the trainee elves did not produce the toys as fast as the regular ones, so Santa was beginning to feel the pressure of being behind schedule. Then, Mrs. Claus…
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While playing around with TextMate and skEdit and I’ve found a few features in each app that I really like. skEdit The code navigation menu is brilliant ! Not only goes it have standard PHP function navigation built-in, but having a built-in system for extension is truly awesome. I generally use switch() statements in my…
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Perhaps this sounds strange, but even though I’m a very happy BBEdit user I’ve recently purchased TextMate and skEdit. Why? Because competition is good. Because having a choice of development tools is good. And because letting these developers know that there is a market for good code editing tools for the Mac is good. I…
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I’ve released new betas, primarily to extend the expiration date because a few people indicated they would have trouble upgrading to a new release between the 25th and the 31st. However, there are a few changes in Tasks Pro™ for this beta: New User Quick Start Guide – you wouldn’t believe how hard this was…
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I got my business cards from GotPrint today. All in all, I’m pleased with almost every aspect of doing business with them. The card stock is quick thick and strong, the glossy side is very glossy, the cutting seems uniform and consistent and the print is clean and crisp on the front. I even got…
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I’ve posted new beta releases of Tasks Pro™ and Tasks. Changes in both versions: Added searching by date created The keyboard shortcut to show Favorites was loading the wrong URL The tooltip for the help link was gramatically incorrect Fixed a small bug in PHP iCalendar (wrong datatype for in_array()) Changes in Tasks Pro™: Added…
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