Archive for December, 2007

Sneak Preview of New Forum

Friday, December 7th, 2007

As we’re very close to the first beta of GTDInbox2, I wanted a place to discuss & debate progress (actually, it’s for all of ProductiveFirefox – I’ve had some great conversations with many of you over the last year or two, that have really helped improve the products, and I want to really make those conversations easier for everyone to get involved with).

I’m not going to hook up the forum to the main sites yet… just this blog post. The blog currently has a few hundred subscribers; and I’d love for this little community to enter the forum, bed down, get a feel for the place and hopefully introduce yourselves….

Come on in to Productive Firefox Chatter!

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Grrr! Gmail Gets Coloured Labels

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Actually that should be a ‘yay, gmail gets coloured labels’, because it’s a planned feature I no longer have to code; but of course, a new Gmail feature means a modified Gmail, which once more broke GTDInbox. (In fact, coming home to GTDInbox tonight was not unlike assessing the collateral damage after a bomb…).

But there is a bigger problem for us here – the Gmail engineers have pledged to update Gmail much more often; which greatly increases the chance of GTDInbox being broken. They have been kind enough to include a light-weight way for developers like me to (safely) work with Gmail’s internals; but it’s currently very limited, and so is not the solution (yet). Hopefully in the future this will help stablise GTDInbox.

Happily though, following tonight’s events I’ve quickly crafted a “rapid-response” solution to automatically repair GTDInbox when Gmail updates. Hopefully this means you’ll never have to witness the emotional rollercoaster that is finding GTDInbox broken (at least not again ;) ). Famous last words & all that…

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