http://journal.mychores.co.uk the development blog for mychores.co.uk Mon, 04 May 2009 10:08:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With thanks to PollDaddy.com, here is the poll where you can vote for your favourite new logo (or vote for the current one if you want to keep it the same). New MyChores Logo contest(online surveys) Click each entry to see a bigger version. It will open in a new window/tab. It's not ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/?p=248 A major new version of MyChores is in the works and i'd like to have a new logo to go with it. Since i have very little design skill i've decided to open it up as a contest. Design your logo, submit it, and everyone will have an opportunity to ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/?p=245 If you've ever wondered how MyChores all works behind the scenes, here's a little diagram to explain it: MyChores domain model diagram I have spent the Easter weekend working very hard on a new version of MyChores. I'm tidying up the code significantly, and implementing a few nice tweaks along the way. ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/?p=244 The Wired magazine has relaunched in the UK and MyChores is in it! John O'Reilly has written an article about life-tracking, the new trend to use the internet to track your life in numbers and statistics. Nine websites are reviewed, including MyChores. The summary for MyChores was as follows: Mary Poppins ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/?p=243 Has anyone managed to get MyChores icalendar feeds into the iCal application on a Mac? Is there a special trick you have to do to make them work? I must confess, i have only tried it with Google Calendar and kCalendar. Since they worked, i assumed that it would also work ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/?p=242 So far this month we have completed 3,827 tasks between us, which is already 135 more than last month, and we're only 19 days into January! The projected total for the month is 6,244 - way more than have ever been completed in any month before! Last January we completed 3,166 ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/?p=241 I apologise to anybody who couldn't log in recently due to the reset password functionality being broken. It is now fixed. I am slowly going through the code bit by bit, tidying things up. Now that i've started, i'm finding more and more that i want to refactor. I know the ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/?p=240 It has been interesting to watch the statistics this month. I see some patterns emerging: Very few chores were done on Christmas Day - and so it should be! :) The beginning of the year showed a flurry of activity, with many new people signing up, presumably having made new year's ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/?p=239 Tonight has been a productive night. I have started on some of the code optimisations that i've been waiting since September to get around to! Some of it has been about reducing and reusing code, for consistency and for ease of writing and maintaining the codebase. Some of it has been ... http://journal.mychores.co.uk/?p=238 I applied a few security fixes a couple of days ago. I apparently overdid it slightly, accidentally making it so that no new people could register! I am sorry about that ... it's fixed now! :) http://journal.mychores.co.uk/?p=237