sevitzdotcom's dashboard

sevitzdotcom started following the idea "Auto-Complete Twitter Names" in atebits.

A comment on the question "Post updates to chat clients mood messages" in atebits:

Would only work if your computer is on though? Would there be much point if you're not at your machine? – sevitzdotcom, on April 20, 2009 14:59

sevitzdotcom asked a question in atebits on April 20, 2009 12:17:

Post updates to chat clients mood messages

The one feature I like of Twitterefic that Tweetie doesn't do is that it can update my iChat (google Talk) and Skype with my tweet (for non @replies) at the same time I tweet.

It does this with an Applescript script, but it calls it on posting.

Be great if tweetie could do this too, or have this as a option.

sevitzdotcom replied on March 13, 2009 10:42 to the problem "Commits and releases taking looooooooooooooong time again.." in Beanstalk:

Deploying is taking much longer than usual. Any idea what's going on?

sevitzdotcom started following the problem "Commits and releases taking looooooooooooooong time again.." in Beanstalk.

sevitzdotcom started following the problem "Commits and releases taking looooooooooooooong time again.." in Beanstalk.

A comment on the idea "Design (formatting) suggestions for the Project Pages" in Next Update:

Well that would also make it interesting to how much I need Basecamp as well as then.

Although we tend to use Basecamp for speccing out a work unit and Sifter for solving bugs with the work unit during testing. – sevitzdotcom, on March 06, 2009 16:52

sevitzdotcom replied on March 06, 2009 16:46 to the idea "Design (formatting) suggestions for the Project Pages" in Next Update:

Yeah. We have a 'project' for each major release of work rather than 1 project with lots of stuff in it.

As a project gets done that will get closed and we'll start a new one.

So when working with or testing a particular project I shift off the dashboard.

sevitzdotcom replied on March 06, 2009 16:40 to the idea "Design (formatting) suggestions for the Project Pages" in Next Update:

I didn't know that, and it's useful.

However doesn't solve the issue of trying to find which number I'm talking about in a Skype chat with our developers who are in Poland (we are in London).

We have lots of skype chats that go,

"And wrt. to ticket #13, I mean #17, no it's ticket #13" etc

Same in emails, and on commit messages "This solves bug #12" etc

sevitzdotcom replied on March 06, 2009 16:30 to the idea "Design (formatting) suggestions for the Project Pages" in Next Update:

Yeah totally understand and all valid points.

Just trying to show how I use the system and what I would find useful. Know it's not that easy or simple to find the best solution.

One thing I'll add is whilst the titles are more useful to identify a ticket, the numbers are useful to refer to in an email/ skype chat / commit message / other ticket. And so if they are hard to find it's a real pain.

Perhaps a solution would be to have a toggle that shifts the display between dashboard mode and detail mode?

sevitzdotcom replied on March 06, 2009 15:37 to the idea "Design (formatting) suggestions for the Project Pages" in Next Update:

All fair points.

Some simplier suggestions then:

The priority and state get hard to scan and glance down a list. Priority doesn't have to be a word but can just be a letter in the styles you do the words or even a coloured circle (various shades of red perhaps). This would give space to then put this on the right.

I find it very hard to find a ticket number on this page. I'd rather have it more squashed up between the state and the title (even if it's smaller) than where it is now. It's impossible to find as it's never in the same place.

I think you could add a third line to the layout.

Having a space between the title and the Catagory / Age would make the page easier to read and then allow you to put the comment information IN FULL under the Assigned by / Opened by area, where it would be more relevant.

sevitzdotcom replied on March 06, 2009 15:30 to the idea "Reopened Ticket state should really just be opened" in Next Update:

I understand the distinction. We either use the system differently or just value it differently.

My team works on a ticket and marks it as resolved. I then go and test it. Discover existing issues, and reopen it.

They mark it as resolved. I find another bug, reopen it.

For me it's just normal regression testing. I'm not bothered by the fact it's "telling them twice".

Maybe there is a distinction on going from resolved to open and going from close to open?

sevitzdotcom shared an idea in Next Update on March 06, 2009 14:09:

Reopened Ticket state should really just be opened

I'm not sure the value of reopened as a state is as important to highlight as just "open"

One of the reasons we're moving to Sifter from Unfuddle is the neatness and cleaner interface with less superfluous rubbish we don't use.

When I look down a list, what's important to me is
"Open | Resolved | Closed". Reopened is just a special case of "open"

It kind of skews attention to itself that it doesn't deserve. When really I just care about what's open.

I would suggest in the listing windows showing "reopened" as "open" and maybe adding an icon or flag next to the "open" button look to show that's it's a ticket that has perviously been closed or resolved.

I think this would be much neater.

sevitzdotcom shared an idea in Next Update on March 06, 2009 14:03:

Design (formatting) suggestions for the Project Pages

I think the dashboard page is really really clear. Neat and well done.

However when you go into a project page the opposite is true. It's really confusing.

You lose the ability to scan down the list in the same way.

the extra fields on this page are
- Category
- Comments
- Assigned by / Opened by

I would suggest keeping the assigned by and opened by as you have done it, but moving the "Last comment by" under this.

I don't think the exact details of when the last comment were made need to be shown. You're more interested if this was recently, or a while a go, or a long while ago.

You could do this by having it as red if ti was within the last day or two. orange in the alst week, and grey if it's older than that.

The rest you could lay out like the normal dashboard and squeezing in the category flag.

I find this page very difficult to read, yet the dashboard page very easy.

Just my 2c.

sevitzdotcom replied on February 13, 2009 22:14 to the idea "Preview button on creating tickets" in Next Update:

See attached image, showing how getSat shows you've said you've implemented some of these ideas.

Suspect it's something in how you are flagging the tickets

sevitzdotcom replied on February 13, 2009 20:51 to the idea "Global / per project categories..." in Next Update:

I'd like to second the suggestion here. It would be really useful to have a set of global categories that all projects get (user definable) and then you can always add per project categories if you want.

Their is for more likelyhood I'll have the same categories across projects than separate ones.

sevitzdotcom started following the idea "Global / per project categories..." in Next Update.

sevitzdotcom shared an idea in Next Update on February 13, 2009 20:36:

Preview button on creating tickets

Hi There,

Since you don't have any text formatting, but you do strip out HTML, it would be handy to have a preview button so I can see what you're going to strip out, and a "carry on editing" button that shows me the HTML you just stripped.

Also I see according to getSat that you have implemented some HTML formatting. I don't see any of this live. Is this implemented but not deployed or am I missing something?

Adrian

sevitzdotcom set one of sevitzdotcom's replies as an official response to "Can we add Multiple Videos in Vzaar?" in vzaar

sevitzdotcom replied on February 10, 2009 19:18 to the question "Can we add Multiple Videos in Vzaar?" in vzaar:

Hi There,

I'm assuming you are talking about adding multiple videos to eBay.

You can have as many videos as you like on a page however you'll have to do it manually. If you add more than one video using vzaar's automated "add to eBay" functionality, the system it will think you are trying to replace the the existing video and 'swop it out' for the new one.

To do this manually you just need to grab the vide embed code and paste it into the HTML tab when you edit your listings. (The same would apply on your own website)

Are you currently using our "add to eBay functionally" ?

Adrian