I'll be giving out free 6-month licenses at Adobe MAX in Chicago this week. Just find me at the conference. These licenses should get you a few months into the retail version so you'll have a chance to play with the beta now, and the released version later.

I'll be hanging around Adobe's AIR booth from time to time, and at various other parts of the conference. Shoot me an email if you want to find me.

We'll be starting our open beta on Monday. Be sure to check in to get the latest version with a bunch of bug fixes and usability improvements.

During beta we're not spending as much time as we will be after release making sure online data is kept safe. If you are saving your schedule to the agileagenda.com site, please also keep a local file copy.

By release we will be instituting an aggressive backup plan.

Thanks,
-Marc

Quick update with a new screenshot on the Developer's client.

The AgileAgenda.com website is moving to a new webhost. There may be some service interruptions over the weekend of September 22.

I've been working on a project scheduling application, and have a sneak peek at a new feature.

Wouldn't it be great if every developer on your team could go in to the schedule and update the tasks they're responsible for? They could mark them complete when they finish them, suggest new estimates, or make comments. Or even just to look at the latest set of tasks they have.

But doesn't it suck to have to worry about developers mucking around in your precisely laid out schedule?

Now, there's a developer interface that lets them subscribe to your schedule, and then update and comment on tasks with a simplified user interface.

Using the interface, they can subscribe to multiple schedules using a special key you can generate from the AgileAgenda main interface.



Then they can synchronize their view with the network version and take a local copy with them.




Right now, it's read-only, but I'll be adding all that 2-way stuff soon. And don't worry, any changes made through the dev interface will have to be approved by the project manager in the main AgileAgenda interface.

I'll have to slap on a slick interface at some point as well.

Thanks to our beta testers for faithfully reporting bugs! Here's a list of known bugs that will be fixed in the next released build:

- When saving files, .sch is appended to the name if an extension is omitted.
- When trying to choose a resource for a task by clicking the down arrow the popup rolls back up We've decided to get rid of the pulldown in favor of a text field since it allows much quicker data entry.
- When starting a schedule on a weekend, the calculation failed.
- Crash when trying to save to a read only file

There's a new AgileAgenda tutorial showing off the basic functionality of the software. See it at this url:

http://www.agileagenda.com/help/createproject.html

You can view the previous tutorial on the light table at:

http://www.agileagenda.com/help/lighttable.html

I'll be at FlashForward in Boston next week and most likely will be at Adobe MAX in Chicago on the 30th. If anyone else is planning on being there and is interested in meeting for a bit, let me know.

The latest feature to AgileAgenda is the "Light Table", where you can drag your tasks around to modify their priority, who they're assigned to, and the estimated duration. I think this feature has the possibility to be a huge help to some people.

Take a look at a short video showing it.