Archive for the ‘mychores’ Category

July 30th

Ajax me up, baby!

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Just a little demo of what i have managed to achieve tonight on MyChores:

Gosh, i love Prototype! :)
If you don’t understand why that’s so thrilling, don’t worry! I get a little bit excitable by little things sometimes! The important thing is that i did this by intention, rather than just copy-pasting other people’s code until [...]

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July 12th

MyChores news

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MyChores seems to be growing quite rapidly at the moment. I think it is receiving a bit of quiet promotion all around the internet. I was delighted when i saw it casually mentioned on familieswithpurpose.com:
… or try using an online chore organizer like MyChores to help get you organized.
Just like it’s one of those sites [...]

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June 13th

Work going very well

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I feel i have settled in extremely well at my first week of my new job. I love the people, the environment, the work we do … it’s fun and enjoyable, challenging, inspiring, makes me feel worthwhile. Most of the week i have been learning and paring with others, watching what they do, asking questions [...]

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May 22nd

I got the job!

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Resumo: Mi kaptis la laboron de Rubeno sur Reloj por kiu mi aplikis sabaton! Mi apenaŭ ne povas atendi por komenci!
Dear readers … i am going to be a full-time Ruby on Rails web programmer! This is just so incredible … it has felt perfect from the start, and i’m so delighted that it has [...]

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April 29th

More glory for OpenID

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Resumo: OpenID ofertas unuobla ensaluto por multoblaj TTT-ejoj. Mia TTT-ejo - MyChores - nun havas elektilo por pli faciligi OpenID.
As everyone knows i am a huge fan of OpenID, so i was delighted to discover that JanRain have launched another fantastic product, called ID Selector, which makes it easier than ever to login using OpenID.
It [...]

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April 27th

Weekend news

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Resumo: Mi parolas pri mia semajnfino - agrabla kombinaĵo de plezuro, muziko, programado kaj hejmtaskoj.
I have had quite a productive and enjoyable weekend. On Friday night we went to the Railway Inn, a local pub well-known for live music. We saw The Autons play there, who were very good and we got a nice chat [...]

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April 12th

Working on Shabbat!

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I have had a busy morning sorting out the remaining problems on MyChores. I had some code changes to do for the OpenID functionality to be compatible with the new version of ruby-openid. I’m glad i’ve got it out of the way because i would have had to do it before we can move up [...]

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April 10th

Flash player on Debian 64-bit

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Two bits of good news. Firstly, MyChores is finally back up and running, to my great relief. We lost data, but people are being very lovely and just reassuring me they are happy it is back.
Secondly, i just installed Flash player! I have been without it since i re-installed my computer a couple of weeks [...]

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April 10th

Anyone know Microsoft Project?

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I have been tasked to write an application to lift data out of a Microsoft Project database. I am finding it really hard to understand the schema. I downloaded some diagrams and documentation from Microsoft, but i am still very confused.
It doesn’t help that i am super-distracted by MyChores being unavailable all this time. I [...]

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April 10th

Major grrr

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Where do you go to give feedback on web hosting companies?
I am rapidly losing my patience with HostingRails. MyChores is still not responding after all this time. Sure, they had some hardware problems, but why is it taking so long to restore? How come this blog is back but they still can’t get Rails up [...]

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