GTD Tracks blog

We’ve been under siege for a few days now from your normal internet hooligans in the form of spam bots and people trying to use GTDTracks as an open proxy. While we’ve closed off our server to be used as an open proxy, we’‘re still getting hit hard by people who are trying to exploit the server. During this time your response times may not be as ideal as we’d like them to be, but I’m pretty sure we can weather this out without any serious disruption.

In a very frustrating incident this morning, GTDTracks was down for a few hours. The cause – a billing confusion on the part of our hosting provider.

To say I am not happy is an understatement. Our apologies for the downtime.

The irony is that the incident was caused by the fact that I was trying to increase the amount of memory on the server, to provide better performance for my users, yet it has the complete opposite effect. Real funny.

We had some unexpected downtime today, from about 6:20pm to 7:10 pm EST. The site was unreachable and could not be pinged. I’m working with the hosting company to determine its cause.

In the meantime, the site is back up and functioning as it should.

I ran an update tonight with some custom patches to get the feeds working again (as well as some bug fixes from the main Tracks branch). Do me a favor and comment here if you’re still seeing feed issues.

We’re planning on pushing out an upgrade this evening (10:30pm EST) that will fix the broken feeds and some date inconsistencies. Should be only momentary downtime (in the seconds, if you notice it at all – won’t hurt a bit).

GTDTracks was successfully upgraded last night to the latest Tracks source. With it has brought new features like tagging and personal timezone settings. It has also brought some small changes in the way you may be used to entering data that should be pointed out:

• When you add a new action, the Context and Project fields are now auto-complete fields which means that once you start typing your context or project name, it will display a list of options matching what you’re typing. This differs from the previous version which had standard drop down select lists.
• The Show from field is now available when you create your actions, allowing you to create a tickler item even from the main actions page.

It does appear that any tickler items you had created prior to last night’s upgrade will now be visible in your main actions list. To get these back to the tickler and off your inbox you can simply edit and update the tickler items (without making any changes) to get them back where they belong.

Please let us know if you have any other issues with the upgrade!