MyChores Journal

Crystal at Twitter contacted me (finally!) and got somebody else to tell me what i need to change to enable Twitter integration again. As i suspected, they have blocked GET requests, and it now has to be a POST request.
Sounds simple enough, but unfortunately i have to download a new version of Ruby in order [...]

Hi everyone, we’re having a little problem with MyChores email. I don’t think any emails got sent out this morning, and reminders, contact messages, signup confirmations etc are not working.
Paul at Rushed Sunlight, the company that hosts MyChores, is looking at it right now. It’s probably due to moving servers at the beginning of the [...]

Unfortunately, Twitter have failed to even acknowledge there’s a problem with their API. I’ve tried many different methods tonight – i thought the problem could have been that i was sending the request via an unsecure method. So instead of GET i’ve tried POST, with various methods of authentication, and i’ve even tried enforcing Secure [...]

It seems i’m always tweaking the invite process :) You can now send reminders to people who you have previously invited to join a team, but they have not yet joined. When you go to your team page, you’ll see their email address waiting for them to sign up. It has an envelope icon next [...]

Something is up with the Twitter Integration – no tasks are creating Twitter posts today. I don’t know why this is – i certainly haven’t changed anything so i suspect it’s either something wrong at Twitter, or they have changed their API. If it’s the former, we just wait for it to work again. If [...]

Suppose you don’t like filling in forms. Especially when you have lots of tasks you want to create, it’s rather tedious to create them all one-by-one.
So now, inspired by Google Calendar’s ingenious Quick Add feature, i bring you Quick-create!
You go to the Quick-create page, type in all the tasks you want, and as if by [...]

Aha! I have done the first item on the list i made earlier today – the invite process now gives a special code (which is more reliable than hoping that they’ll sign up with the same email address)!
It wasn’t a nice task to do … i don’t particularly like all the fiddly checking that goes [...]

I have several ideas buzzing around in my head … i’m really excited and keen to get started with some of them, but just for now i’ll make a note of them here so that you know what’s coming, and so that i don’t forget anything.
Summary

Improve the invite process – this one’s quite urgent actually.
Make [...]

You should notice a slight change to the user interface of MyChores – the links to Workload, Calendar and Statistics should now show like tabs.
This effect was mainly for the Preferences page, which now combines all preference options together using tabs. I also have in mind that i might change the ‘Edit Task’ page to [...]

In the wee small hours of this morning, we were moved across to a new server and received a few other upgradey goodies!
For the teccie people, the main change is that we’re now using Mongrel as our HTTP server. For the non-teccies, let’s just say, it should be FASTER!!
This is very good news as it [...]