Entomologist UI Changes – Weekly Report #13
The past week has been a killer, trying to get Remember the Milk to work correctly has been much much harder than I ever thought it would be. After hours of prodding and hair pulling the work I’ve put in is starting to take shape but much, much later than I had planned. It looks like the soft pencils down date was an ambitious estimate to having finished the project but aside from a few issues with duplication that I haven’t tracked down yet it works. I have to implement a new way of storing the service ids assigned to tasks that are inserted because right now we just get tasks from the service and compare. If the user ever changes the name this will obviously break and isn’t the most efficient way of storing multiple ids.
I have until Friday to finish the work and if all things go well then I hope to have RTM and Google Tasks finished with a good chunk of the Generic WebDAV feature integrated, if I don’t manage the Generic WebDAV feature then I don’t know what I’ll do as it is one I want to include in the release.
Lesson learned: Web service APIs can drive you crazy especially if you mix it with asynchronous network connections (which I’ve never had to use before).
