X.U. Chronicle Journal

I had to reformat my PC, no way out of it, but little did I expect the amount of time to get all my software installed. I keep a list of the absolute necessary software that I need to do my work, they have to be free, open source, help me be productive and to keep my PC as clean as possible this time, I narrowed them down ...

Today, I’m glad to finally announce the official release of Jumptree ASP.NET 2.0 Project Management software – to effectively manage projects, milestones, tasks and clients interactions. As some of you probably know, it has been two month since the Beta of Jumptree Project Management was released. During these two month, thanks to input of ...

New update!  We've just posted this news on our offical blog, basically with a bit delay due to various feedbacks that we got back from our beta testers, we are going to release our offical v1 in about 1 weeks of time. In addition (here comes my little gossip), our web designer Jackson is extremely detail oriented and sometimes a bit ...

In the last few months, I've seen several people searched “web installer” from search engines and stumble crossed my web site. Unfortunately, I never went into details of how a web installer works, I sincerely hope those who left found their solution eventually. When we started Jumptree Project Management, one of the core requirements is to ...

It's finally here. After nearly half year of planning, the first public beta release of Jumptree Project Management software based on ASP.NET 2.0 is available for download.  In the past few years, my consulting firm has experimented with all types of bug tracking and project management software ranging from Mantis, Bugzilla, Fogbugz to ...

Being doing Java for a long time and one of the most impressive library I've used is DisplayTag. This is java world's Grid solution as oppose to the GridView in the .NET world. I have to say there are a LOT of things I like in displayTag library that I wish gridview can provide. First and for most, I like the internal support for ...

If you have a small size team anywhere between 2-10 people, I’m sure at somewhere in time, you have the need to manage the projects you have on hand. What concerns you the most? What is your management style? Between me and my friends, we all have different perspectives and they can pretty much be categorized into three major ...

What makes effective project management software? In my mind, they are simplicity, usability, accountability and more importantly, communication.  First of all, let’s get this off our back. Microsoft Project is not a solution.   The first reason is while M.S project provides lots of goodies, in fact, too much goodies to the point ...

Let me insert a building image here, how do I do that? With LiveWriter's build in Map Insert of course   Below is the image that actually got inserted into my post here.   VERY SWEET!

This is my second post using live writer and I think I will stick with it for a long long time, it's simply WONDERFUL. You know what's funny. Web application is suppose to make things easier and that's why I choose web development as my profession. Yet, I'm back to this fat client because it's simply easier to use ESPECIALLY when it ...