http://journal.mychores.co.uk the development blog for mychores.co.uk Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:51:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday castlequeen joined MyChores and became our 1000th member! I feel honoured and blessed that so many people around the world have decided that MyChores is a service they can use and enjoy. Thank you to all of you ... all 1000 of you who have joined. :) http://journal.mychores.co.uk/articles/2008/06/22/1000-members/ Well done everyone for your efforts in May! It was the busiest month ever, with over 4000 tasks ticked off. It makes me so happy that people are using and appreciating MyChores. Thank you. I have been quite busy lately and haven't had time for much MyChores development. I do, however, have ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/articles/2008/06/01/good-work/ This is to announce that i am going to be working on Rails web development as my full time job very soon! This is partly thanks to the success of MyChores, so i want to thank you all for helping to make it what it is currently. Especially thank you ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/articles/2008/05/22/a-little-news/ If you want an easy way to do a lucky dip, just drag this bookmark to your toolbar. Lucky dip Then, if you don't like the task it picks for you, you can just press the button again and get another one! Yesterday was a very busy day on MyChores with 230 tasks ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/articles/2008/05/18/lucky-dip-bookmark/ After a heavy afternoon working on the MyChores API i decided to do something fun for a bit of light relief! If you have a lot of tasks to do and don't really know where to start, try the Lucky dip! It will choose a random task that is assigned to ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/articles/2008/05/10/lucky-dip/ Last week i made OpenID registration easier; today i have made traditional registration easier, using reCAPTCHA. No more entering 'H6a38G' or whatever code it was that i mangled in the GIMP several years ago! I had quite a few emails about that, from people who couldn't read the code and there ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/articles/2008/05/05/improved-registration-process/ The subject of this post was the subject of an email i received at the weekend. The ever-awesome JanRain have launched another OpenID product, called ID Selector to make OpenID more obvious and easier than ever. I have added the simple DHTML plugin to the OpenID registration screen, which works a ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/articles/2008/04/29/lets-make-openid-easier/ Have you ever wished your workload list would auto-refresh itself? Well now it can. Just go into your Preferences - Workload Preferences and set the "Auto-refresh workload" option. By default it is set to "never", but you can have every minute, five minutes or ten minutes, depending what you think ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/articles/2008/04/27/auto-refresh-enhancement/ It just occurred to me that i could make a really useful enhancement to the search page. When you search for tasks you will now get them ordered by due date (the due date also appears for you) and you can tick them off right from the search page. It's ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/articles/2008/04/27/sometimes-the-smallest-changes-are-the-best/ We are now up and running with Rails 2.0.2. There were a few unforseen difficulties along the way, and you will probably need to login again. We are now storing session information in the database rather than cache in your browser. This turns out to be more secure. The American English ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/articles/2008/04/27/upgrade-complete/