Archive for March, 2010

Screencast

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Here’s the screencast about how I’m using myTO every day:

Regards,

Daniel

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myTO goes open source @ SourceForge

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Hello guys,

I finally decided to make myTO an open source project. After setting up a – hopefully – good code base, now myTO is a project among many others at SourceForge. There you’ll get the newest releases, you can add bugs to the bugtracker, talk about myTO in the forums or help develop by becoming a commiter. I hope this will enhance the amount of users and commiters.

Best regards!

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myTO v0.3.0.1 is here!

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Hello all,

no news for a long time. But the development went on – intensively, I promise!!

And now I’m proud to present the newest version of myTO, v0.3.0.1, which brings some really cool features with it:

  • Usage

    • myTO now supports effort calculation (estimated effort, real effort) and automatically summarizes the effort of child tasks. By introduction of this feature, myTO can not only be used for self-organization, but in fact you can also do a proper bit of project planing and tracking with it (even though this was not the initial purpose for myTO).
    • You can now assign a responsible to each task.
    • Auto selection by different criteria based on regular expressions (name, content and responsible can be used as criteria)
    • Selected task efforts are added and results are shown in the status bar
    • A task’s attachments are now stored compressed within the myTO-file – and you can have infinte attachments per task

  • Look&Feel

    • Multiple myTO-documents in one program instance
    • Docking and floating windows
    • Window size and layout, column-sizes, toolbar positions and size are saved and restored
    • Auto completion for the responsible selection
    • Drag’n'drop from Microsoft Outlook 2003+ (EMails, Calendar)

    There’s an overview of all the features myTO offers on this page. Give myTO v0.3.0.0 a shot – it will improve your self-organization and help you beeing more efficient and – in the same time – even more relaxed, because you’re sure you will not forget a thing!

    And some big changes happened under it’s bonnet – in fact, I totally started from scratch and migrated feature by feature. Here’s a short overview for you nerds, which shall also be a big thanks to the developers providing their sources to me and the world:

    • No more datasets are used for data storage. I switch from datasets to XMLserializer, to SOAP, to BinaryFormatter, and finally to DataContractSerializer.
    • No more datasets are used for queries, I switched to LINQ - which is awesome!
    • I switched from a standard Windows form to an enhanced form, provided by the WeifenLuo.WinFormsUI.Docking assembly
    • The treecontrol was reverted to the original Aga.Controls TreeNodeAdv.
    • For compressing I already did use and still use Ionic.Zip.
    • As editor component for the content RichTextBoxExtended is used.
    • Many other custom classes like the UndoRedo based on Commands, PropertyValues based on the reflection namespace, FifoBuffer, etc…

    Now go dl’ this piece of software! :-)

    Regards,

    Daniel


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