MyChores Journal

Well, i can safely say the hardest part about that was upgrading to Ruby 1.8.5 … which turned into the expected classpath nightmare, followed by a versioning nightmare, followed by a compile nightmare … i got my computer into such a bad state that i had to re-install the operating system this morning!!
Once i eventually [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sorry about the slow speed of MyChores over the last 24 hours. I fiddled with the .htaccess file last night, blatantly not having a clue what i was doing, and ended up skewing everything a little bit. However, we should be back up to the normal speed again now.
Paul from Rushed Sunlight tells me we’re [...]

Okay, i think i have solved the problem with Twitter being unavailable, by putting a rescue SocketError in the code. I guess we won’t know for sure if it’s fixed it unless Twitter becomes unavailable again, but i’m fairly confident we’ll be okay next time.
MyChores also now gives you a little bit of feedback on [...]

An unfortunate side-effect of the Twitter integration is if Twitter is down (as it is at the moment) then MyChores will give an error when it tries to send a Twitter update.
If you have this problem you can either ignore the error (refresh your workload list and you’ll find that MyChores has updated correctly) or [...]

MyChores now supports Twitter Integration!
If you have a Twitter account, and wish to have MyChores update it whenever you complete a task, you will find the option under ‘Preferences → Twitter Integration settings’.
You need to enter your Twitter email address and your Twitter password. Your Twitter password will be stored using a two-way encryption algorithm. [...]

Anyone heard of or using Twitter.com?
It’s a site for posting a short message about what you’re currently doing. Somebody suggested to me that i integrate MyChores with it, so that every time you do a task you can have it automatically update on Twitter what you’ve done.
I like that idea because i’ve been looking for [...]