MyChores Journal

MyChores has just become OpenID enabled! I’ve tested it with LiveJournal, MyOpenID and VeriSign, and they all work a treat. You are welcome to associate your MyChores account with an OpenID; just go to Preferences and it’s under Login details.
I have become quite the OpenID evangelist in the space of a few short days! It [...]

I decided to make yesterday a MyChores Monday since the weather was so rotten and i had nothing much else to do. I spent the day learning about, and implementing, OpenID authentication.

OpenID lets you authenticate yourself with a trust mechanism between websites, rather than using a username and password. If you have a URL that [...]

Here is an idea that i have been pondering for a while, and would like some feedback if it’s a good one.
Task Sequencing. Things that happen as a result of doing other things. For example here’s a 3-step sequence we could configure:
Put on laundry.
    ⇒ same day: Hang up laundry.
        ⇒ two days later: Put laundry away.
Whenever [...]

I forgot to mention last night, the statistics page now includes a chart of tasks completed daily for the current month. I wanted to do it as a column chart but couldn’t get it to work, so it’s another bar chart, the same as the others. One day perhaps i’ll have some more time to [...]

Today the MyChores API has been extended to include ‘My Tasks’. As before, i have made a demo page to show it in use. When you look at that page, a prompt will come up for you to enter your MyChores username and password. That is because this API resource requires HTTP Basic Authentication.
Next i [...]

Today marks two new things on MyChores. Firstly, the very beginnings of an API, and secondly a new theme. Let’s talk about the theme first; i’ll come back to the API in a minute.
The new theme is called ‘Patience’. It’s grey and white, pale, blocky, and i couldn’t resist doing a bit of the diagonal [...]

I don’t know about anybody else, but i’m really happy with the new statistics page! I can see that more tasks have been done in May 2007 than in the whole of November 2006 … and we’re only at the 11th of the month! That really is exciting!
I would like to put a bit more [...]

That was a dead easy fix. I’d somehow lost the include ‘csv’ line, no idea how that happened, but i added it in again and Export to spreadsheet is now working as before.

It has come to my attention that export to spreadsheet is not working at the moment. I’ll have a look into it and fix it as soon as possible.

Ahhh, i’m really pleased to announce a brand new statistics page. No more pretty line graphs and pie charts, i’m afraid, but on the plus side, this page keeps itself right up to date and i don’t have to do anything. It will also be easy for me to add any new statistics on to [...]