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It’s official; as of this evening I am now using an install of Thought2Action as my primary task manager. Expect a flurry of changes over the next week or two as I fix annoyances.

I made a number of database changes earlier today and updated the demo site; what you’ll find in particular is that only incomplete and tasks with a modification date within the past three days are displayed. As I imported my 13k line tasks.ics file into the database, I realized I’ll need to modify that to also hide tasks not yet due, and using coloring for overdue tasks wouldn’t hurt either.

All in time. I find it hard to believe I’m finally at this point with the app, after nearly six months of background, spare-time development. Very exciting.

Unfortunately I haven’t been doing any cross-browser testing during recent development. As a result, I’m kind of shocked at the way the site looks on non-Firefox browsers. Under IE, the entire table gets outlined in the goal/value/quote editors, not just the outer frame as in Firefox and Safari. In Safari, it appears impossible to use the date picker calendar. For the time being, just use Firefox.

I do want this project to be reasonably cross-browser compatible, so I will take steps to improve this over time.

The demo site has been updated! There are bugs to shake out, and a couple of minor things I still need to change, but you can now add and modify todo items. The goals will appear at the end of todos with the next update. Have fun!

Ok, I’m so close now to something usable. I’m not going to bed tonight until I have it done, I promise. I have the Jolt cola to back that promise up, too!

Well, I only spent a couple of hours on the todo editor this weekend, so I decided to update the demo site to give you an idea of how it’s turning out. Saving edited todos and adding new todos isn’t up yet, but you can delete them. Many minor bugs were shook out of the rest of the GV/goals/quotes pages, too.

I keep getting closer…this is really working out well. Todo items are now editable, I just need to hook up the event handlers and think of a good way to add new todo items. Choosing a date picker was a bit tough, but I settled on jscalendar and I love it.

No demo site update until it’s all working (just a few more days, trust me).

I’ve been iterating through many changes in the goal/governing value/quote editors, and finally think I can say I’m done with any more major changes. There may be a few tweaks here and there but I am satisfied with the layout and backend code for now.

I needed to reach this point because I didn’t want to have to keep refactoring the task editor. Adding the ability to edit tasks is now my main goal, and I hope to reach it sometime next week. The demo site has been updated so have fun with it.

In case you’re anxiously awaiting the exploit code for the critical PHPiCalendar security vulnerability, you’ll have to look for targets other than Thought2Action installations. I had the code patched within five minutes of the announcement on the forum yesterday, and the demo site (as well as other installations) are now updated with the fix. Open Source rules. 🙂