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Creating the Beta Version of Task Manager

theBlaine — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:40:53 +0000

In the past week I’ve been looking into to how to use jQuery and Ajax for my Task Manager. I’ve got about 2 days of playing with the code under my belt. Now I feel confident enough to begin work on the Second edition of Task Manager.

This will be another “proof of concept” to try out a new interface using jQuery and Ajax. Once it’s functional I will put a sleek style on the interface.

-- Task Manager Beta --

You can see the first version on Task Manager here. Task Manager Alpha was the first version.

Task Manager Alpha

theBlaine — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:38:59 +0000

A few months ago I was looking for some sort of application that would would me organize my tasks. I found a few, but the nice ones cost money and most the task organizers I found required you to install a program onto your desktop. I was looking for something more web-based or even a widget for my Yahoo! Widgets.

After trying a few free task managers, I decided I would be better off building my own. I wasn’t out to try and build something as robust as some of the fancier ones. I just wanted something that was functional.

I still have a lot of tweaking to do to it before it would be ready for any sort of large scale usage. What I have now is a “proof-of-concept” and when I get bored I will add more bells and whistles, but for now it works.

-- Check out my Task Manager --
(this version is the Alpha Version, click below for the current version)

UPDATE (10/21/2008): I am now currently working on the new Beta Version Here

How to use Trackbacks and Pingbacks in WordPress

theBlaine — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:52:48 +0000

I am new to fairly new to WordPress and had some questions on how to use the trackbacks. I searched for a few hours and read a few tutorials, but it still wasn’t making any sense. Articles would describe how to turn them on, but not much into the details of how to actually use Trackbacks and what they do.

After reading this tutorial, I had a much better understanding of how to use them and that I can actually use Trackbacks as a way to generate traffic to my website. Read this article if you want to learn more about WordPress’s Trackback and Pingback features. This article is great, I learned quite a bit from it and now use Trackbacks on many of my posts.