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Upgrade of our service (availability, performance etc.) + cool, new, visual scheduling
We pushed a new release of software code on Nov 4 '09.
A lot of the work was infrastructural. This includes revision / consolidation of our use of Javascript to just what's essential. For users this means that a lot of features should run more swiftly (ex: make a bunch of Tasks in that module & then drag them up & down the list), and there should be fewer slow-script warnings, which have been especially hitting users of Internet Explorer. We still expect that Firefox, Chrome and Safari are browsers that will provide better usage experiences, but IE is no longer as much a poor stepchild as it had been.
Another infrastructural change has been increasing the amount of available server resources and dynamically directing traffic among them. This makes our availability more robust, flexible and scalable. Ongoing increases to capacity can be done rapidly, and before long probably automatically (meaning as soon as usage hits a level at which more servers would be better for user experiences, those new servers could come on immediately).
Feature wise, we have one, very cool, new area of functionality. When scheduling events, there is now a visual depiction of who's available when and whether other people's existing appointments are in the video.Market7 project being considered, or in some other project. We also have determined how we'll be able to extend this to the rest of people's calendars, so that if someone gives our application permission, it would be able to check out & indicate when person's available based on that too, and Market7 events could be scheduled with total optimization for times people are available. Here's a demo of the scheduling work we've done so far: http://bit.ly/4A0tMl
A lot of the work was infrastructural. This includes revision / consolidation of our use of Javascript to just what's essential. For users this means that a lot of features should run more swiftly (ex: make a bunch of Tasks in that module & then drag them up & down the list), and there should be fewer slow-script warnings, which have been especially hitting users of Internet Explorer. We still expect that Firefox, Chrome and Safari are browsers that will provide better usage experiences, but IE is no longer as much a poor stepchild as it had been.
Another infrastructural change has been increasing the amount of available server resources and dynamically directing traffic among them. This makes our availability more robust, flexible and scalable. Ongoing increases to capacity can be done rapidly, and before long probably automatically (meaning as soon as usage hits a level at which more servers would be better for user experiences, those new servers could come on immediately).
Feature wise, we have one, very cool, new area of functionality. When scheduling events, there is now a visual depiction of who's available when and whether other people's existing appointments are in the video.Market7 project being considered, or in some other project. We also have determined how we'll be able to extend this to the rest of people's calendars, so that if someone gives our application permission, it would be able to check out & indicate when person's available based on that too, and Market7 events could be scheduled with total optimization for times people are available. Here's a demo of the scheduling work we've done so far: http://bit.ly/4A0tMl
I’m thinking that we're heading towards being a top-shelf solution for overall project management (driven by a lot of user requests despite that not being our main purpose -- we're largely about collaboration on content)
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