The MadPilot Produtions office will be closed from the 24th of December until the 5th of January.
Whilst I'll be periodically checking that 88 Miles, I won't be checking email very regularly during that time, so by all means, continue sending any email, just don't be offended if you don't get a response until early 2009!
So have a safe holiday season, and I look forward to tracking your time in 2009!
Just a quick note to let you know that 88 Miles will be down for maintenance on January 25th 2008 between 10am and 10:30am AWST (GMT+9).
During this time, we are moving to a new server to increase the capacity and speed of the system — I have done a couple of test runs, so that side of things should be fairly smooth. I only really envisage 5 minutes of actual downtime, but with DNS delegation, you never know!
During that time, you won't be able to punch in or punch out of projects — however, if you are punched in on a project, the system will remember it and you should see the running task when it comes back online.
If you have any questions, please contact us me via the MadPilot Productions website.
Thanks for your cooperation, and sorry for the inconvience
Myles
Ross Dawson, who is holding a Web 2.0 conference next month has compiled a list of the top 60 Australian web 2.0 companies, and 88 Miles came in at number 43!
88 Miles wasn't the only Western Australian Web 2.0 app to make the list:
In at number 5 was Minti, the parenting social network. Number 6 was Scouta - the Podcast suggestionsnetwork started by Richard Giles. 23 was Bronwen Clune’s PerthNorg. Number 29 was the social bookmarking tool, Buzka
Watch out for the Australian startups, they really are starting to gain momentum!
As most people are winding down for the season, 88 Miles is full steam ahead with a number of updates that will be pushed out through during the Christmas/New years break. The changes include a help system, some more UI changes and time budgeting.
So for those of you who have been waiting patiently to set a time limit on a project, your wait is NEARLY over! I'll explain it further after it is released, but in a nutshell, you enter the number of hours (or minutes) you have to complete a project and you get all sorts of warnings when you go over.
Anyway, that is enough for now, as I'm sure there is much eating, drinking and merrying to be had. On behalf of 88 Miles and MadPilot Productions, please let me wish you all a happy festive season, and I hope you look forward to a spectacular new year.
Myles Eftos
88 Miles creator
Welcome to the December of edition of the 88 Miles newsletter! This month brings some cool updates to 88 Miles, which I hope will make your lives just that little bit easier.
Did you know you can manually add shifts to a project retrospectively?
This is really handy if you forgot to punch in, or if you did some work away from you computer.
Just click the “Options” button, select “Summary” from the drop-down panel and then click “Manually add a shift”.
The biggest update this month is the introduction of the new business accounts. The business version has been in beta for a couple of months, and it is now time for it to go live!
The pricing structure should cater for everyone — there is a price point for everyone from freelancers to huge corporations — if you are interested in seeing how much is all costs now, goto the pricing page. For those of you who were business beta testers, you get a special surprise — you get access to the corporate version of 88 Miles for free for the next 12 months (Value: $648!).
The other big news is that the free account has just become useful! The free account has no time limits, and has no limit on the number of staff you can have. The only limit is you can only punch 40 hours per month (so roughly 10 hours per week). As a result, those of you who's accounts have expired have been un-expired — so login again and see what has changed!
88 Miles will now generate graphs for project summaries and project staff summaries. If your have a JavaScript enabled browser, you will be able get a visual representation of where your time is going.
To see the graphs:
Happy time tracking! (And remember to tell you friends!)
Myles Eftos
88 Miles
creator
The 88 Miles team have been busy little beavers of the past couple of weeks, with a number of updates that rolled out over the weekend — the list is as follows (in reverse order of significance):
Phew! What a list. It's all part of our mission of keeping 88 Miles simple, yet making it powerful at the same time. As always, if you have any feedback, leave a comment below, or send as a message.
Happy tracking!
Myles Eftos
The first version of the 88 Miles webservices are complete and uploaded!
You can find details of them at http://www.88miles.net/developers
All of the webservices support SOAP and XML-RPC, so if you have wanted to integrate 88 Miles with your CMS, or create a desktop version or create a funky time management mash-up - now you can.
The webservices can still be considered beta, but the interfaces shouldn't change in this version. Also, we make no promises that the documentation is 100% accurate, there may be typos, etc so please contact us if you have a problem
Cheers,
Myles
Welcome to the first 88 Miles blog post!
I will be posting mainly announcements and messages on this blog, including scheduled and unscheduled maintainence, bug fixes and new features.
Please feel free to post comments as this feedback will allow me to provide a better service which is a good thing!
Whilst on the topic of comments what has everyone thought so far?
Recent updates include:
(Not to distant) Future updates include:
Love to hear you suggestions on other features too
Thanks!
- Myles
