Workload widget for Billings
Billings, Marketcircle’s excellent time reporting and invoicing application, was updated to version 2.5 the other day. If you look at the Billings website you can find the same icon as on this page, it’s the icon for my Dashboard widget Workload, which is a Billings companion showing you how much you’ve worked the past week.
If you are a Billings user, I recommend that you download the free update to 2.5, and if you do, why not try my widget as well. You can download it here, or from the Billings website.
Some notes for geeks
The widget was built using MochiKit, one of the best things that has happended to the Ajax world. I also tried the beta of Apple’s Dashcode IDE, which has an excellent debugger, but too many quirks and annoyances. It doesn’t work well with other editors (there is a “Edit in external editor” command, but the edits will be reverted as soon as you return to Dashcode) nor Subversion, it keeps overwriting everything since it works with some kind of temporary version internally. In the end, the debugger is what saves it. It’s just so much easier being able to test and debug in Dashcode than anything else I’ve tried (but I’m not a veteran widget programmer).
2007-05-10 at 19:29
Nice app!
If I ever will return to freelance work, I will keep this application at the back of mind.
2007-08-14 at 17:14
That’s one of the best widgets I’ve ever used! But unfortunately I can’t use it any more, because I had to switch to iBiz.
Do you consider making an iBiz version of it?
Thanks again for this great icon. It really helped me very much.
2007-08-15 at 07:30
Thanks for the nice words. I haven’t considered porting it to iBiz, and it’s unlikely that I will, unless I switch to iBiz too. Sorry about that. I don’t have time enough to add new features to the widget as it is.
2007-11-16 at 14:45
the widget doesn´t seem to work wih the latest osx 10.5.1 update anymore… :(
2007-11-16 at 14:58
Could you be a little more specific? I’m running 10.5.1 since this morning and have had no problems.
2008-05-20 at 17:02
Super cool but for some reason it only worked for a few minutes. Now I just see “Loading…” and “X”s where the days of the week should be. I’m using Billings 2.5.5 on OS X 10.5.2 On an 2.4 GHz Intel 2 Duo. Thanks!
2008-05-20 at 19:37
Try clicking the “i” to switch to the backside and then click “done”, that forces a reload. I sounds like you have reloaded the widget with cmd-R, which sometimes puts it in an unresponsive state.
2008-07-08 at 01:18
Thanks for this! It’s really wonderful and beautifully designed.