Browsing about the internet this weekend, and came across an Analog Binary Clock by Michael Battle on the rather brilliantly named domain: footloosemoose.com. Flicking through his other articles, it looks like a good blog to follow.

A great article has been posted on the Agile FAQs blog. It is a list of 11 myths of Agile Development, and why they are wrong. If you’re into agile development at all, I’d recommend a read.

If you’re a web developer like me, but don’t have access to all the different operating systems and browsers, check out browsershots.org, I’m testing it out now to see what my blog looks like, so hopefully by the end of this article, it’ll be done. Free too, which is nice.

Patrick (of Bingo Card Creator fame) has just posted a new article on his Blog, about exploiting new niches for SEO. I’m an avid reader of Patrick’s blog, and neat little posts like this are the reason why.

And finally, web2Project is nearing release. As a user of dotProject many moons ago, before the development temporarily stopped, I’m looking forward to the inaugural release of a brand spanking new project management system, built on top of the dotProject framework. As many of you know, I use Timersheet.php, but am thinking of taking on the development as the project seems to have died. Lets see if web2Project has all the features I need, yet be simple enough to use.

Some screenshots have been uploaded of my blog by browsershots.org….wow! what a great service. I recommend using this 100% (even though my blog does look rubbish!!)

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I have been using an open source project called Timesheet.php for a number of months now and am finding it very useful for tracking the time I work on projects - and as a result helping me get more organised.

From the Freshmeat project page:

Timesheet.php is a Web-based application designed to keep track of the hours worked by multiple people on multiple projects. It allows users to log in and manage the times that they are clocked on or clocked off. It has many features, including user, client, project, and task management; a calendar view of work, grouped by project or all projects; monthly, weekly, or daily views of work; work periods spanning multiple days; automatic calculation of invoices; manual clock-on/clock-off maintenance; administrator views and reporting; timezone adjustment; a simple weekly timesheet entry mode; and LDAP support.

However, I’ve had a good look on the internet to see if this project is still being maintained, but it appears development has ground to a halt.

• http://www.timesheetphp.com/
• https://sourceforge.net/projects/tsheet/
• http://code.google.com/p/timesheetphp/
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/timesheet.php/
• http://www.advancen.com/products/timesheet.html
• http://www.ohloh.net/projects/5548

As said, I’m finding it a pretty useful app and would really like to see development continue. I’ve been trying to contact the admins of the project to see how to get involved, but as yet with no luck. Following some conversations with existing users of the project, I have decided to fork Timesheet.php and actively develop it. I have chosen to fork the project instead of taking it over as time won’t have to be wasted trying to chasing all the instances of this project on different sites (e.g. code.google, Ohloh etc).

So now a little help is needed. The first thing needed if this project is going to be forked is a new name. My suggestion of “Timesheet.php 2″ is a bit rubbish, so if anyone can come up with a better name, please post a comment on this blog, or reply to to the thread I’ve started at Sourceforge. Also, if you want to get involved with the fork, please drop me a line - message me through Sourceforge, comment on this post, or post a reply at Sourceforge.

Due to work commitments at my end, I can’t see anything major happening until early next year, but hopefully by then, the new project will have a name!

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Can I just say a big thanks to Gergor K of Phex for helping me out and offering his thoughts and advice. Thanks Gregor

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