I Need A Name

What are we going to call this NetOffice fork? Another fork has been called NetOffice Dwins, so I'm thinking NetOffice Waterfall might be the go.

Or maybe NetOffice Light?

Dunno. Anyone got any other ideas?

RSS Feeds for NetOffice, Client Site Idea

I've managed to get an RSS feed working for task updates! Just need to tidy up the code and implement some security and I'll be able to add that in. With the hard work done we can also add feeds for other events/updates as well.

Thanks to all who commented on my previous post about what the future holds for this project. I'm starting to think about the 'client site'. It's not used by any of my clients in it's current form, but I think it might be useful to have the following:

1. Somewhere to upload comps or design ideas, and have the client log in and comment (or even vote) on design alternatives


2. Somewhere to upload documentation that everyone needs to access, in a very similar way to Basecamp

I have received a few offers of help which is much appeciated. I'll be contacting those people over the next week and we'll see if we can get something under way.

Stay tuned!!!

Cheat Sheet Collection

This is a great little resource - Pete Freitag has put together links for a bunch for cheat sheets. And lets face it - these things always come in handy.

Time to start downloading and printing! ;)

V7ndotcom Elursrebmem

V7n are running a search engine optimisation contest, where you have to get top ranking for the term V7ndotcom Elursrebmem in Google on the 15th of May 2006.

This is a pretty feeble attempt to rank well for V7ndotcom Elursrebmem - I'm not chasing any incoming links or anything else like that. I'm basically putting this page up out of curiosity to see where I end up.

Oh, to comply with their rules I need to do this:

• We support v7n.com

"Something is Happening" Icons

Here are some assorted "Something is happening here" icons to use when you're busy AJAXing.

Some are quite familiar... it seems that these sort if icons are all trend-driven too!

RIP WE, Hello WD

Web Essentials have held conferences in Sydney for the last 2 years - but sadly 2005 was the last.

Fear not! Web Directions is on in late September - and is the child of 2 of those responsible for Web Essentials - Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp. No particular details released as yet, but hopefully it will live up to it's predecessor - and I have every reason to believe it will.

They also have a few workshops planned for around the same time, so I'm hoping we'll have enough notice this time. Last year I had already booked and arranged everything before the Veen workshop was announced. That would have been pretty good, I expect.

A New NetOffice?

There has been no activity on Netoffice for some time now. I contacted the current admins about taking it over some time ago but received no reply. So I'm thinking it might be about time to fork and start doing my own thing with it. I have a couple of thoughts:

1. I'd like to redo the header/footer and remove all presentational HTML so the look can be customised easier with CSS


2. Delete the 'Client Site' facility. None of my clients actually use it - it just gets in the way


3. Delete the 'Support Requests' for the same reason


4. Streamline the workflow - make it simpler to update a task and log time in the one step


5. Add project & task templates - make creating a new project simpler


6. Improve Milestone handling


7. Improve some of the reports


8. Add RSS feeds for project/task updates

Yep... that's a bit of work. I know these posts are being read... Are there any other thoughts out there?