MyChores Journal

Hello everyone. I know it’s been several months since i made any changes or updates to MyChores. Now that programming Ruby on Rails is my full-time job (which i love) i find that it is hard for something to be both a job and a hobby. One thing that i would like to do is [...]

MyChores has a new logo! :)
Okay, so i am way behind with the whole Web 2.0 logo phenomenon, but i am proud of this new logo and you can’t deny it is better than the old one! ;)
We also have a new banner to go with it, showing off our new tagline … wow it’s [...]

Followers of my personal journal will know that i have been having computer troubles. I think the power supply unit died following a series of little power cuts that we had last weekend. I have ordered a new PSU and will be putting it together next week. Hopefully that will bring the computer back to [...]

I updated the public statistics page to add a bar chart at the bottom, showing the five most popular themes. This is mostly for my own interest, but i guess there could be a few people out there who love statistics as much as i do!
The majority of people never seem to change their theme, [...]

I bought a poppy today, for Remembrance Day, and i thought, wouldn’t it be nice to have a MyChores theme with poppies on it. I don’t know whether all countries have the same symbolism, but in the UK many of us wear small paper poppies as a sign of remembrance for all who have died [...]

I’ve been working on this for a few weeks, but Harry Potter proved to be rather distracting! ;)
Tonight i have released the new-look MyChores, which is hopefully cleaner, more attractive, easier to navigate, and also lends itself more easily to new themes.
The four existing themes have been upgraded to match the new design, so it [...]

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 was inspired today to make a new theme for MyChores. It’s soppily called ‘Love’ – i could have saved it for Valentines Day … but i was too excited to wait that long! Here’s a preview:

The picture at the top is of rose petals, credit to Raven3k for this photograph.
The theme has an advantage [...]