Trog, the Blog

Trog Bar is in the final stages beta testing. Of course, we’ve locked down the feature set, which keeps us from introducing last-minute bugs, and bug reports on the latest build have been sparse. Since lots of people are using it, this means the new Trog is quite stable.

With plenty of time but few bugs, we’ve taken time to play with an idea (in a separate development branch, of course). The idea is simple: use a fast and light SQL database to index Outlook’s tasks and emails. Then, query the database rather than Outlook’s MAPI interface…

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Outlook 2007 SP2 fixed the commonly reported “I closed Outlook, but Task Manager says it’s still running” bug. While we’re thrilled that this bug was fixed, we’re not so excited about how it was done. The fix has created at least one headache for the Outlook development world. Here we describe the unlikely bug introduced in SP2 and the even more unlikely fix. [Click here to read more...]

Although there were occasional doubters and the development took an eternity, there can be no question. We’ve given birth to a totally new Trog Bar, and Trog development is back in the fast lane. At long last, the fruits of a difficult development cycle are available. Monday we released a major new update to Trog Bar. How major? We modified about half our code. Of the code we did not modify, about 75% was removed. We replaced the entire user interface with a brand new, more stable, more flashy, more extensible, and more compatible one. Because the changes were so vast, we released this first update as a public beta instead of pushing it out through the automatic updater. It works well, feels great, has dozens of bug fixes, and we use it ourselves. Now you can help us test it “in the wild” before we push out the update to everyone. [Click to read more...]

What does it mean when the development blog is quiet for awhile? Are the programmers soaking in sun on a Hawaiian beach, or are they chained to their desks beside a pile of pizza? Here is the inside scoop. Over the last 3 months we’ve been working feverishly on radical changes that will make Trog Bar even faster and more flexible with a smaller memory footprint. [Click here to read more...]

A lot of software companies maintain development blogs. In fact, I’d venture to say that over 50% of GTD-related software providers have blogs. Until now, Priacta stubbornly ignored this trend, and for good reason. Why talk about the features, when we can let you use them? Maintaining a blog consumes time that could be spent creating features instead.

So why the change of heart? Ironically, it was a new feature!