Comments Off | Tue Jun 30 2009
We’re at the final stretch now of what will be the start of a bunch of updates for the next few months.
Here’s our release schedule:
Week 1 — July 8, 2009
- Globalization
- Customized Fields
- Inline Calendar
Week 2
- Global Search
- Put project and milestones in categories
- Extend Session Timeout
- Save files to somewhere else instead of /App_Data/
- Inline preview of images
- Upload User photo
Week 3
- Authentication (SiteMinder and Active Directory)
- BB Code
- Gantt chart
- GUI enhancements when selecting Closed and Published Items
And of course v1.2 will have significant portions open sourced so you can customize Jumptree Project to fit your needs.
NOTE: The source code will only be free for current customers.
After v1.2 is released, here’s a preview of what’s coming in the next few months:
- Email integration
- Timesheets
- Charts
- Export to Excel, Word, PDF
We’re very excited about what’s coming and we hope you are too 
4 Comments | Fri Sep 5 2008
The v1.1.1 update of Jumptree Project includes many under-the-hood changes that will prepare us for the much larger v1.2 update that’s coming up.
The new v1.1.1 features are:
- The Admin is no longer a default of any project. They can still access everything but you have to manually select the admin to be part of a project.
- All date and time are now converted to UTC.
- OEM-ready
- Increased speed
We also fixed up a few bugs here and there.
This is a free upgrade for existing customers, so please login and follow the update instructions »
Also, if you customized certain parts of Jumptree Project (e.g. replacing the logo) please follow the customization instructions »
10 Comments | Fri Mar 28 2008
DISCLAIMER: I’m not a lawyer and this obviously isn’t legal advice. This article is about our experiences on incorporating in the State of Maryland.
A smaller disclaimer: We incorporated Jumptree back in 2007—so the procedures might have changed a bit since then.
Also, we worked on Jumptree Project for a long time before we actually incorporated.
In fact, we already had a working alpha version before we decided to start up. Basically we wanted to be sure there was something tangible and not waste money starting something we couldn’t complete.
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2 Comments | Sat Mar 15 2008
I don’t know if I’m just the minority among the ASP.NET developers, but for years, I’ve never had to deal with the Active Directory simply because most projects that I’ve done before were in hosting environments where Active Directory is a luxury to have.
Things are different these days when it comes to support a product like Jumptree Project. Lately, we’ve had quite a few inquires from companies and government agencies where Active Directory authentication is the norm, and such it’s essential for them to link the users in their system with Jumptree together.
So how does a developer—who is not a network admin guru—setup such an environment to develop against Active Directory?
The Hardware
- Machine A Windows 2000 Server — We will setup Active Directory here
- Machine B Windows XP Pro — This will be our client machine where ASP.NET 2.0 will be used to authenticate against the Active Directory
- Router — Connects Machine A and Machine B together.
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1 comment | Wed Mar 12 2008
Back when I was consulting, the one thing that would give me cold sweats at night was expecting to get a call saying the clients wanted some changes to be made.
And I hate changes…well, not actually hate but maybe a really strong dislike…
The main reason is because of all the wasted time that was spent prior to that. All that time spent on negotiating the contract, workflow-ing the specs, drinking Starbucks…and of course let’s not forget hours actually spent working on the original requirements.
Now I don’t blame the client—because that’s what consulting is all about.
As their guide, it’s your job to figure out what they want. But unfortunately a lot of times they aren’t sure either.
That’s why contracts, requirements, specs, and all that stuff should never be considered the Holy Grail.
Of course it’s hard not to get personal because you spend so much time on it that it’s like your baby and someone is telling you, “Um…yeah…something’s wrong with your kid. It’s gotta change!”
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