Clocking in

By chris, posted on Apr 23rd 2007

Wow, it’s been nearly 5 months since I last wrote on here. What can I say, I’ve been busy. In fact I’ve been more than busy, I’ve been burning ever candle at every end I could find, but loving it (mostly!)

You may well be wondering what’s happening with projectGenie at the moment, and the answer is not much. I’ve added a few little updates to the demo site. In no particular order they are:

Not much, I know, but it’s something. For the ‘Brookmeyer’ version which hopefully I’ll get chance to work on some time this year, I’ll be rewriting the entire system to be much more modular, as well as incorporating my lovely JavaScript library to do all the eye candy stuff. I also want to give the option for clean URLs on servers that support it. And plenty more besides that, including reports, statistics etc. Goody goody. In the meantime please download ‘Anderson’, with the little tweaks mentioned above and watch this space.

To finish off I’ll share an excerpt from a nice email I got from a projectGenie user:

“First, major kudos for projectGenie! It is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for to help me run my web design business.”

A spring clean

By chris, posted on Dec 2nd 2006

Yes, I know it’s nowhere near spring, but I wanted to have a bit of a shuffle round. SO I’ve redesigned the front page of projectGenie to be broken into 6 (5 if you’re a client) panes with a quick list of the recent changes to each data type in the system. That’s tasks, bugs, announcements, milestones, projects and (for the owner company only) memos.

Obviously that called for a bit of a change with the CSS files, and while I was doing that I noticed that the Pillarbox style was completely broken in Internet Explorer (surprise surprise). I’ve never really liked that style, it was only created because I thought I ought to have a red one, so I’ve scrapped it. That’s right - no more Pillarbox style.

Of course, if you want a red style then you’re more than welcome to hack your own.

Nothing to report

By chris, posted on Sep 19th 2006

I currently have nothing to say. And while that may make me sound like the most boring blogger in the world, the fact is that just haven’t done anything with projectGenie worth mentioning.

I mean, you already know about the different looks for the software, the use of RSS technology and some other stuff, so I don’t need to repeat myself.

What I will say is that I intend to get rid of some of these features and instead do some of the basics much better. So that means easier ways to add projects and tasks, easier to-do lists and cleverer handling of different item statuses. Less meta-data, more information. Less, less, less. And of course all written around a completely new codebase.

And who knows, if I get time to do all that I might, one day, have something to say.

projectGenie demo “Anderson” now available

By chris, posted on Aug 23rd 2006

Finally, there’s a demo available. Log in at http://demo.projectgenie.org using the username ‘guest’ and the password (yes, you guessed it) ‘guest’ to see the projectGenie system in action.

Remember this is a very early version of the software, so there may well be bugs. If I tell you that this particular version is called "Anderson" and the next version will be called "Brookmeyer", will you be able to guess what unique naming convention I am using? Probably not, but I’m not telling just yet :0)

projectGenie website under development

By chris, posted on Aug 16th 2006

The projectGenie website is well on the way, with a few bits of tidying up like error pages and links being done. I’ve also updated the ‘about’ page to reflect some changes in my thoughts on money. Read the section from "How much does it cost?" onwards for more details.

I’m also making progress on the demo. The reason that’s taking a long time is because I want to make sure it’s a) relatively secure and b) capable of handling some neat features in the future. What neat features? Well, how about your very own version of projectGenie that runs from this website. So you don’t even have to set up a server yourself to get project managin’, just create an online account and away you go. That will be a subscription-based service designed for people that want fewer headaches and a more personal service. I’ll sort out the pricing soon, but I intend it to be very competitive.

Other things happening at the moment in projectGenie land include: "clean" URLs capability, coloured highlighting of due soon and late tasks and projects, and a much more detailed manual. All those changes will be in the demo version when I finally get it live. Thanks for bearing with me on that.

I’ll also be turning this blog into a proper comments-and-everything blog, but for now I just want to get the demo live. So I better get cracking.

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