Tracking my every day's tasks/ToDo list has always been a never-ending problem for me during these years! For each of my personal domain tasks and issues, I used a different system to track them. For some, I was relying on my (not-so-good) memory so was missing some of them as a natural side effect :-) Many were getting written on paper sticky notes pasted on my monitor, desktop as well as handling the rest electronically and writing them down in word documents, simple text files and so on. I was tired of all these inconsistencies...
After all, I didn't have a centralized system to see all my tasks in one shot and have a report on them. I had different category problems to track such as my general (non-business) tasks, many of my open source activities, a few business related ones and so on. You see they're not a flat ToDo list but domain/project based and kinda hierarchical and many daily-task-organizer softwares do not have the hierarchical management of the issues.
Anyways, after having a bit of ups and downs with the options I had, just decided to use the same great software, I'm using to track the software projects issues & bugs at work (as many of you do), to fulfill my needs at home :-) Yes! I'm talking about Atlassian JIRA j2ee-based issue tracking software. Well, it's gonna be the third day I'm using it and am really satisfied. Perhaps a new use-case for JIRA. Some of you may complain that it's not the right software to do these kinds of trackings but as for me at home it's doing the job well and greatly fits my needs (so far at least).
Now I have all my tasks in one place and have defined different categories (called "Project" in JIRA) for them. At any moment I can request the latest status report of my whole in-progress or later ToDo tasks and it provides me a great overview of what I'm doing everyday and hugely decreases the risk of missing an issue. Moreover I can customize the filters (read "Reports") how I want and even add some more in addition to the default ones. What else do I need ?!
So far so good!
Armond
Great mobile news RSS feeds and HTML links from Russell Beattie on his blog. Even he's created the OPML file for RSS ones too! Many new cool sites I'd not got into them previously! Thanks Russell for sharing them :-)
C h e e r s,
Armond
WOOHOO! It's nice to see my BluPlusPlus skin for JAlbum, a java-based digital album generator, is the top download at JAlbum Skin Repository for about a month, just a bit after adding the initial version (1.0) there :-) More than 550 hits on less than one month and a half period! Glad to see people have liked it and even rated it as to be one of the highest favorites.
As I'd talked about the great online community foums, it's even a cool place to share one's developed skins and get valuable feedbacks.
Well, why don't you give BluPlusPlus a try? I've also uploaded a sample show case here. It can give you a feeling on how your albums will look like when using this skin. No need to mention that the advertisements you see there at top and bottom of the album is not something skin related ;-) That's the way it is! All free space providers have their special set of rules for advertisements....
Anyways, any feedback/idea/suggestion on BluPlusPlus is greatly appreciated...
Armond
From the day one I got into J2ME platform (and even before that when PersonalJava was hot!) I have always liked it regardless of its limitations. Really exciting to have your programs run on your phone, PDA or other J2ME supported small devices :-)
Many months ago I started to work on a Midlet called k-IRC (v1.0) for Asian Mobile Challenge. An IRC client running on any MIDP 1.0 supporting device with TCP socket support and enough heap size (actually a bit more than the usual 64KB)! The actual IRC engine borrowed from a J2SE Swing application called RelayIRC also hosted on SourceForge but customized/enhanced and changed it to be compatible/runnable under J2ME platform. Nice experince it was and I learnt a lot from that project :-)
Anyways, recently I decided to make k-IRC open source and release it (v1.1) under LGPL on SourceForge.Net so that people can freely download and play with it. Both the source and binary forms (for Mobile and Palm) are available so feel free to give it a try! Any idea/suggestion/feedback is highly appreciated...
Armond