Thu 10 May 2007
Haris.tv is now fully Feedburned! I’m gonna share the setup I’ve used and hope that it will provide some time saving tips for anyone who wants to do the same.
A summary of the steps I’m going to cover
1. Register with Feedburner (free)
2. Setup one Autodiscovery feed
3. Redirect requests for old feed using FeedSmith Plugin
4. Add chicklets to your site.
OK then, I hope you’re sitting comfortably, away we go! (more…)
Sat 31 Mar 2007
Managing tasks whilst maintaining productivity can often feel like an uphill struggle. Over the years, I’ve refined the way I like to work and found I am most productive when working from a single list of tasks.
The order of my tasks depicts the priority. This means that, once my tasks are ordered correctly, all I need to do is work my way down the list from the first item.
ActiveCollab has provided me with a great set of tools to manage projects. However, I feel the current version (0.71) lacks an efficient way of managing tasks and doesn’t provide a single combined list from ALL projects. This, coupled with the fact that I’ve been yearning for a drag and drop sortable list has driven me to hack activeCollab’s My Tasks page and add a new feature that I’ve called ‘Prioritask’. (more…)
Wed 28 Feb 2007
I’ve been looking for an open source application that I can use to manage my projects and after a review of the current popular options I’ve chosen activeCollab. ActiveCollab is written by Ilija Studen who based the system on Basecamp, 37Signals’ popular project management and collaboration tool.
After I installed and became acquainted with the system I realised that it was lacking something that I needed urgently; the ability to attach a thread of comments to individual tasks for the purpose of issue tracking. (more…)
Wed 31 Jan 2007
Up until yesterday Haris.tv was using a plugin that provided visitors with an array of social bookmarking options that I decided, on review, was cluttering up the page layout. I chose to scrap it in favour of a cleaner and simpler design.
I wanted to provide visitors with a quick and easy method of sharing articles on Haris.tv but at the same time I didn’t want to clutter the layout.
Fri 19 Jan 2007
The secure-admin plugin download count has just hit the 100 mark in about a week! Glad people are finding it useful!
Thanks to those that have blogged about or linked to Haris.tv. I’m continuously updating the site and publishing tasks on the Task List for anyone that’s interested in upcoming features…
Thu 11 Jan 2007
Update (16th April): Now compatible with PHP 5.2.1!
Update (19th April): Now supports Shared SSL certificates!
Update (24th April): Plugin renamed to ‘Admin-SSL’
Haris.tv now sports SSL encryption and my intention is to apply the security to parts of the site that handle sensitive information.
The Story
I’ve been spending a long while looking for the most efficient way to make use of an SSL certificate with WordPress. Although there have been some promising solutions out there, the majority required hacking at the code and didn’t seem elegant enough to me. (more…)
Thu 14 Dec 2006
After a successful setup of Subversion I’m now happily coding along whilst checking work in and out.
I’m currently working on a to-do list feature. This will be displayed on the blog side panel so that I can publish tasks I’m working on.
I had a look around for a suitable plug-in but couldn’t find one that covered the features I wanted, so I’ve hacked one together.
It’s almost complete apart from a priority ordering function which I’ll be finishing soon…
Wed 13 Dec 2006
I spent a large chunk of yesterday choosing between 2 web hosts that offer similar products at similar prices.
I need to setup a subversion(SVN) repository to manage my code work for Haris.tv and finally settled on Dreamhost for the following reasons:
Mon 11 Dec 2006
I’ve been playing around with a logo concept for Haris.tv and came up with this…
I may jiggle it a bit here and there but I’m happy with the colour scheme and general feel!
Mon 11 Dec 2006
I’ve just added a temporary skin to the blog which should do nicely until I get round to updating the design to something more custom.
Haris.tv will be progressivley turning into a more aesthetically pleasing site as time goes by…