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Nozbe – Get Organised Easily !!!
May 19th
As someone who was constantly writing to do lists, I came across a great book, Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen .
Getting Things Done (GTD) is a simple but very effective method to manage, commitments, information and communication. Nozbe is an indispensable way of organising your tasks and projects into manageable items using GTD.
Nozbe has a fantastic, feature rich, web interface which allows you to organise and prioritise tasks easily, being able to share projects and tasks with multiple people.
There are also
Andriod
iPhoneversions that allow you to keep up to date, while on the move.
Nozbe has full integration with Dropbox and Evernote, ensures that you can track your tasks and supporting information all in one place.
There is also, for Mac OS X users, a very useful Bookmarklet and AppleScript, which allow you to add tasks directly from your browser !!!
I am new to GTD but find is easy to manage my tasks and to do lists using Nozbe. SInce using it, my productivity has really increased, and I am certain less worried about missing things, as I know when I have a task, I simply add it to Nozbe, therefore allowing me to concentrate on the task in hand.
To support you there are very useful and active:
Michael and the team at Nozbe have done a fantastic job, and if you, like me, are swamped by to do lists, this is an excellent way to organise them.
To get started, I recommend signing up for a FREE account and try it yourself.
If you are interested in Getting Things Done (GTD) David Allen’s book is excellent.
GTD® and Getting Things Done® are registered trademarks of the David Allen & Co.
Open Source CMS / Portal
Sep 29th
Started to look today at options for Open Source CMS / Portal tools.
The company I am working for currently is looking to move to a simpler, and more up to date platform to manage there on-line presence.
Core functionalities required are:
- Ability to build custom portals as and when needed, for specific needs, styling and layout could be different on each portals needs
- Ability to build changeable navigation around each portal, with different channels and pages
- Ability to register and administer portal and administration users
- Ability to add / edit / manage content of the following types
- Editorial (News / Features / Articles)
- Links – adverts and links to either internal to the site / between different sites / to external sites
- Ability to manage visibility of content based on configurable user rights (I think we may eventually move to LDAP to source this information, but currently this is sourced in customer DB tables
- Ability to manage SEO data
- Ability to personalise content based on the user
- Ability to allow end user to customize there portal.
There seems to be a whole wealth of Open Source Tools out there now, and it seems a little difficult to get the core information about what each one provides.
I have found the website http://www.opensourcecms.com which lists and has user ratings on these, and am using this as my current source.
2 which I am trialling now are
I have just managed to install the above for now, but will update when I have more information on my experiences.
Upgraded WordPress to 3.0.1
Sep 29th
Upgraded wordpress to 3.0.1 today.
The Automated update fell over in a big heap. Was left with the Maintenance message.
Tried to remove the /upgrades directory as mentioned on other blogs, but this didn’t work. So I downloaded the zip and manually upgraded the files following the steps documented here
Now all working fine, had to also upgrade a number of plugins, and themes, but they all worked using the upgrade in the dashboard.
I would recommend not upgrading using the auto upgrade for the 3.0.1 upgrade, and do this manually, it will save a few panicked minutes !!!
Bugzilla Upgrade to 3.6
May 20th
I installed Bugzilla at my current contract, over 2 years ago, and we use this to track all our issues and development tasks.
After the usual resistance to change, we were tracking issues in a multitude of spreadsheets, the technology side of the business has taken it on well. But business users always found the forms and interface ‘complicated’
I have just finished upgraded from version 3.2.3 to version 3.6, the latest version out.
This is a significant update, as far as business users is concerned, as the interface has been greatly improved these include:
- New improved ‘quick search’ form home page
- Simple browse bugs interface
- Improved login from banner menu
- New Home page, guiding users into the activities that they most commonly want to do
Will have to wait and see what the business thinks? But good job Bugzilla team
My First Post – WordPress Install
Mar 31st
Well it was far less than 5 minutes install. WordPress looks fantastic, easy to use and navigate, intuitive, themes and plug-ins to keep everyone happy. Looks great.
Install Steps
* Download from WordPress
* Login to my domain hosting control panel and add MySQL database
* Phone up my domain hosting company and find name of database server
* Copy files to webhost via FTP
Thats it.
