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30/11: Today’s tip : Don’t put your mobile in the wash

Well I have been without a mobile phone for a little while since Julie washed my last one.  Anyway, today I decided to try my luck on eBay.  I got a Pearl 8100 for just over £100 which seems like a good deal.  Now I just have to wait for it to arrive.  Fingers crossed.

Update: My Blackberry Pearl arrived earlier this week.  I'm very happy with it.  I have plenty to learn though and it will take a little while for me to get up to speed.  I am currently just using it for calls and haven't investigated getting e-mail working.  A while ago, I downloaded a ten user enterprise licence from RIM so I'll probably try and get that working.  I guess I'll need a data contract as well from one of the mobile network providers.  Anyone know what the going rate is for that?  I currently am on pay as you go with Orange.

14/11: What next for eTimesheets?

A week or so ago, I released eTimesheets onto openNTF as an open source project.

eTimesheets is a web based Timesheets system that I had developed a few years ago when I was based in India at a subsidiary of Inter Weavers that was called Tiger Infotech.  We learnt a lot when we developed eTimesheets and it was successful for us because one of our clients took it and we integrated in into their existing systems.

Here's the link to the eTimesheets project on openNTF:
http://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectLookup/eTimesheets

I decided to open source it because we weren't doing anything with it.  I decided that letting companies use it for free may provide some opportunities in the future if one of those companies want to interface it with their HR system, their ERP system or their Leave Request system.

So now the product has been downloaded about 150 times but I could sure use some feedback.  Was it easy to install?  If not what do I need to add into the installation guide?  Do you like it?  If not, what enhancement would you like me to consider adding?  Please comment away.

4/11: eTimesheets finally released!

I have finally released eTimesheets to the http://www.openNTF.org site as project eTimesheets.  Please download it and check it out.

UPDATE: I originally uploaded the NSF databases with local encryption!  This has now been fixed which also reduced the filesize from 9MB to 2MB.  Apologies to anyone who has downloaded the 9MB version.  Please download the 2MB version instead.  I simply edited the original release document rather than creating another.

UPDATE 2: This is getting embarrassing.  I released eTimesheets without giving Manager access to the Default ACL group despite writing the installation instructions on how to change the ACL after download.  It is now rectified.  Apologies to anyone who downloaded version 0.9 which has now been replaced by 0.901.