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Some of you may have noticed some stabability issues of late, to combat this 88 Miles has now moved over to a new Grid server, which will give us room to grow in a more scalable way.
Whilst we wait for the DNS to update so of you may be accessing the old server, don’t worry though, the migration has been done in such a way that you any shifts you enter will be saved regardless of which server you hit.
You can easily tell if you are accessing the new server by looking at the footer of the page – if there is a MadPilot Productions logo there, you are on the new server!
If you have any problems with the new server, please contact me.
Thanks,
Myles
This week in 88 Miles
I have made a couple of small changes this week, but they should make your life just that little bit easier.
Tagging
You can’t have a Web 2.0 project without tagging, and frankly, why should 88 Miles miss out? Now you can tag projects, which makes filtering much easier. Click on the “Options” button for any project and you will see a text box – put in a tag and hit “Add” and your project is tagged!
Time rounding
For those of you that charge in time blocks, the summary pages allows you to round the totals of each shift up to the nearest 6th, 10th, 15th, 25th, 30th, 45th or 60th minute. You can find this option under the “Filter” link in the menu on the summary pages.
That’s all for this week – don’t forget to send all of your suggestions, so 88 Miles can get better and better!
- Myles
… well, not a completely new look – but probably enough to warrant a blog post 
The major change is that now the punch-in/punch-out button is a toggle rather than two different buttons. Nothing major, but makes everything look even simpler.
A big thankyou to the extremely talented Anton at Clever Starfish for the new button designs!
For those of you that print off the 88 Miles project view, we have created a print-friendly stylesheet!
This means that the list will print out a lot nicer than it did before.
You will also have noticed a few cosmetic changes to the interface — we hope you like them. If you don’t, let us know, we want to hear from you.
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):
- Minor GUI updates: Fixed the lengths of text boxes on Macs and fixed some typos.
- Daily totals: You can now see the total hours you have worked for a company and on a project at the click of a button. Extremely useful if you switch betwen jobs all day
- Mobile Edition Beta: Access 88 Miles via your mobile phone! There are two versions, a WAP 1.1 for older phones and a WAP 2.x version for newer phones and PDAs. Currently you can only punch-in and punch-out from existing projects, but if there is enough interest in adding other features (such as adding companies and projects), We’re all ears.
The URLs are:
- WAP 1.1: http://www.88miles.net/wap
- WAP 2.0/PDA: http://www.88miles.net/mobile
Business Edition Beta: Previously, if you wanted to use 88 Miles for all of you staff, you needed to created separate accounts with separate billing for each user, and there was no way of collating the time totals across users. Well no more! The business edition allows you to create staff members under one account, and to see summaries for all of those users, either separately or together. Interested? You can sign up for the free business user beta test group at http://www.88miles.net/pages/business
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
Good morning fellow time trackers!
We have been busy little beavers here at 88 Miles. We are working hard on the comporate edition, which will allow you to add and manage other users from one account – great if you own a small business and have a couple of employees you want to manage.
88 Miles has also been entered into the Western Australian Web Awards. Winners are announced on 18 August – fingers crossed!
88 Miles needs you!
We would like to ask you for a little help, in the way of a little feedback.
88 Miles has been kicking along for the past couple of months, so most of you should have had more than enough time to have had a good play.
If you can reply to the following questions (Either as a comment below or to myles@88miles.net if you want more privacy) we would be ever so grateful!
- How often do you use 88 Miles?
- What do you like about 88 Miles?
- What do you hate about 88 Miles?
- What features would you like to see?
- What features don’t you use?
- Would you be interested in beta testing the corporate version of 88 Miles?
A BIG thankyou in advance.
Just fixed a small bug which may have stopped some of you from logging in.
Sorry for the inconvience
Made some small bug fixes today, both associated with the "Notes" field.
- 88 Miles will no longer crash when there are weird characters in the Notes field
- As soon as the text box loses focus, the notes are automatically saved into the database, so if you go off somewhere else with out checking out, your notes are saved
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
Hello to all you 88 miles users!
Just a quick note to announce 88 miles coming of age. It is now out of Beta!
Many, many thanks to those of you that have sent in feedback and to those of you that find 88 miles useful.
As a reward, you can continue using 88 miles for free until 16/08/2006 (anyone registering after today only gets a month).
All of the prices are listed on the www.88miles.net website.
Don’t for a second think that just because 88 miles is out of beta, that will will be sitting on our laurels – we have a number of features in the pipeline. We will keep you informed as they happen.
That’s all for now – happy time keeping!
Myles Eftos
88 Miles founder
