The router at the data center that hosts my server has stopped allowing outgoing traffic. As a result, all e-mails sent by my server (since Monday, I think) are sitting in the queue. As soon as this is fixed, they will all go out. We didn’t catch the problem until now because the server could…
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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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It’s been just over 6 months since we moved from the Bay Area to Denver and I switched from a 8-5 (ok, 10-7) job working for a software company to striking out on my own as an independent software developer. In those six months, I’ve gotten my first experience selling software with three major software…
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Recently, I’ve had a few people ask me how Tasks sales are going and if I am indeed making a living selling my software. I’m happy to report that I’m not starving just yet. 🙂 Before I took the plunge, I was a little anxious about leaving the safety of a salary for the unknown…
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I seem to have crept from the #4 spot up to the #2 spot in Google’s rank for ‘Alex’ these days. This is a nice improvement from the last time I checked, of course it’s not quite as good as some folks. I just redid the design of my home page (here is the old…
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In some encouraging news (for me at least), my site traffic has been steadily increasing. This is the first month I’ve been averaging over 4000 visits a day (3950 last month). I remember that shortly after I first launched the site, 1600 hits in one day seemed like an awful lot! Anyways, I’d like to…
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So far the decision to put up forums has worked out extremely well for me. I hope the users are finding it useful as well. 🙂 In just over 2 months, 94 users (+ guests) have created over 650 posts. Awesome! I’ve found that I’m able to to answer questions less often via e-mail and…
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Dunstan points to some interesting ramifications of having trackbacks (or comments) enabled on a business site. I choose to keep my blog posts about Tasks Pro™ development here on my personal site when I quite easily could have them displayed on the Tasks Pro™ web site. One of the main reasons was not fear of…
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I’ve re-activated the style switcher, but with a check that disables it in Safari. Sorry Safari users, try out Camino, it’s a better browser anyway. If you have the debug menu enabled in Safari, you can tell Safari to masquerade as a different browser and that will enable the switcher for you. I just can’t…
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The style switcher isn’t helping readability if people can’t click the links or see the site at all (in Safari). I’m going to rewrite the switcher in PHP instead of the JavaScript I used from A List Apart. I’ve seen it work great for other sites and it worked great here for all browsers except…
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It seems that the little style switcher I added is really wreaking havoc in Safari. Visitors get a blank page until the hit refresh a half dozen times. I saw this myself initially in Safari, but now it works fine for me in Safari and I can’t reproduce the problem. I can’t debug the darn…
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I’ve made good progress with my forum and mailing list integration work. I’ve got the forums posting to the mailing list and I’ve got code working that retrieves e-mail from an account and posts it to the right forum. Now I just need to do some subject/thread title pattern matching and it’ll be all set.…
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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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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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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…