Quite often, we will walk away from our desktops perhaps to answer a phone call or attend an impromptu meeting. The last thing we would remember to do is to stop our timer on the current task.
Well, now you no longer need to remember! The new beta of Worklog Assistant automatically detects when you are away from your machine and stops the timer on the active task. On your return, Worklog Assistant will tell you how long you were away for and ask whether you want to apply the away time to a JIRA task. This works great for those persistent little interruptions.
You can see the workflow in action here.
I think this is quite possibly the coolest new feature, especially the workflow upon return, and I would be very happy with feedback.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
New release (1.0.1105)
A new release of Worklog Assistant is available. The main changes are technical with a couple of bug fixes.
My favourite long-time issue has finally been solved: http://gsfn.us/t/3xak . Now Worklog Assistant will correctly detect multiple instances and prompt you. However, as always, this can still be improved further. One such improvement is here: http://gsfn.us/t/8oln . Basically, don't prompt at all, just launch the original instance. If you would like this, please add a vote!
A special thanks to some adventurous users for testing last week's beta. Although no issues were reported, I would not have been able to be as confident as I am now. So, thanks again :-)
Happy time tracking and have a good week!
My favourite long-time issue has finally been solved: http://gsfn.us/t/3xak . Now Worklog Assistant will correctly detect multiple instances and prompt you. However, as always, this can still be improved further. One such improvement is here: http://gsfn.us/t/8oln . Basically, don't prompt at all, just launch the original instance. If you would like this, please add a vote!
A special thanks to some adventurous users for testing last week's beta. Although no issues were reported, I would not have been able to be as confident as I am now. So, thanks again :-)
Happy time tracking and have a good week!
Monday, June 22, 2009
New beta (could use some eyes)
Hey all, a new beta is available. There are behind-the-scenes changes which I had been working on all week that should make some cool new stuff possible. As a bonus, Worklog Assistant now correctly detects multiple instances!
Please download it and report bugs if you find any.
There will be no stable release this week as I work on stabilizing the beta.
A little story
As I was doing my final testing (ahem, after publishing the beta) I noticed that the Mac version had become completely messed up due to some minor but tedious misconfiguration. As a result, it would work just fine on my test machine, but not for anyone else! I stayed up till ~2am fixing it and uploaded a new beta.
This morning, my wife said she was sorry that I had to stay up late working on it. I told her that this is what dreams are made of! I have created something that whole companies use regularly and users that actually seem to care**.
For me, it was a thank you to those customers and users. For me, software development is less about software and more about solving problems. I would like to avoid all serious problems for my users if I can help it. Indeed, I was not even tired afterward and found it hard to fall asleep.
This has been my best month so far (2x anything else) so that was an added motivator. But I'd like to think I have not changed from the month where I had a single lonely sale, at least in how I approach solving problems for customers.
Happy time tracking and have a good week!
** Some users don't care about what it's called but really care that it works. For example, one user calls it "Weblog Assistant" in multiple, unrelated emails. I thought that is so awesome!
Please download it and report bugs if you find any.
There will be no stable release this week as I work on stabilizing the beta.
A little story
As I was doing my final testing (ahem, after publishing the beta) I noticed that the Mac version had become completely messed up due to some minor but tedious misconfiguration. As a result, it would work just fine on my test machine, but not for anyone else! I stayed up till ~2am fixing it and uploaded a new beta.
This morning, my wife said she was sorry that I had to stay up late working on it. I told her that this is what dreams are made of! I have created something that whole companies use regularly and users that actually seem to care**.
For me, it was a thank you to those customers and users. For me, software development is less about software and more about solving problems. I would like to avoid all serious problems for my users if I can help it. Indeed, I was not even tired afterward and found it hard to fall asleep.
This has been my best month so far (2x anything else) so that was an added motivator. But I'd like to think I have not changed from the month where I had a single lonely sale, at least in how I approach solving problems for customers.
Happy time tracking and have a good week!
** Some users don't care about what it's called but really care that it works. For example, one user calls it "Weblog Assistant" in multiple, unrelated emails. I thought that is so awesome!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
New release (1.0.1103)
A new release is available. This release fixes some issues experienced when the certificate revocation list (CRL) cannot be retrieved on Windows. Previously, you would be blamed with a message like: "Hey, you didn't enable the SOAP API!" Now, you are asked whether you wish to continue even though the CRL could not be downloaded.
There is also a rewrite of how the project and issue links were being rendered to fix a small bug. I think I've stomped out all the bugs with the rendering but if you have any issues, please let me know ASAP, preferably with steps to reproduce.
The tray icon and tray icon context menu have also had a bit of a revamp. Please let me know if you like :-)
As always, happy time tracking and have a good week!
There is also a rewrite of how the project and issue links were being rendered to fix a small bug. I think I've stomped out all the bugs with the rendering but if you have any issues, please let me know ASAP, preferably with steps to reproduce.
The tray icon and tray icon context menu have also had a bit of a revamp. Please let me know if you like :-)
As always, happy time tracking and have a good week!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
New release (1.0.1011)
This is a bug fix release, please see the release notes for changes.
Thanks and have a good week!
Thanks and have a good week!
Sunday, May 24, 2009
New Atlassian plugin site
There is a new Atlassian plugin site in the works. This site kicks some serious ass. One of the things that the website supports very well is reviews and ratings. If you have the time and are able to give a review please see the Worklog Assistant plugin page.
You might even find a little surprise there :-)
By the way, I'm pretty sure it's ok for me to link you from here but if it isn't, you didn't hear it from me!
You might even find a little surprise there :-)
By the way, I'm pretty sure it's ok for me to link you from here but if it isn't, you didn't hear it from me!
New release (1.0.1099)
A new release is available. The main change in this release is to make the "Choose Visible Columns" dialog box scrollable when there are too many custom fields. Previously, when there were too many custom fields, the dialog would scroll off the screen. This usually happened when you had many projects in JIRA with their own custom field requirements. It had quite hilarious results (where hilarious = not funny!) on some Linux machines. The Mac, on the other hand, was quite happy showing the largest algorithmically generated dialog box in the history of man:
And that was scaled to 20%! Anyway, the algorithm has been changed to make the dialog scrollable vertically as well as limit to 3 columns.
There were also some licensing related changes which were mostly to do with update notification when your license cannot be upgraded. If you experience any problems with licensing, please let me know ASAP so we can resolve it.
Happy time tracking and have a good week!
And that was scaled to 20%! Anyway, the algorithm has been changed to make the dialog scrollable vertically as well as limit to 3 columns.There were also some licensing related changes which were mostly to do with update notification when your license cannot be upgraded. If you experience any problems with licensing, please let me know ASAP so we can resolve it.
Happy time tracking and have a good week!
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