Scheduled maintenance [complete]
Friday, June 27, 2008 by Emily Boyd
As I mentioned yesterday, we're scheduling some maintenance this weekend to perform an upgrade to improve site performance. RTM will be down for up to an hour tomorrow (Saturday), starting at 4:45pm Sydney time (view in your timezone). I'll post again here once we're done — thanks for your patience! :)
Tip: You might be aware that you can use RTM with Google Gears to manage your tasks while offline. Provided you have it set up prior to our scheduled maintenance, you can use this feature to manage your tasks while RTM is offline too — your changes during this period will be synchronized when RTM returns from maintenance.
Update 5:40PM Sydney time: It's taking a little longer than anticipated, but we should be back soon.
Update 6:45PM Sydney time: We're back! Thanks again for your patience.
Netvibes module and Opera support
Thursday, June 26, 2008 by Emily Boyd
In our eagerness to ensure that all RTM features had full support for Firefox 3, we did something pretty silly. When updating our Netvibes module to support Firefox 3, we accidentally broke support for Opera 9.5 — whoops! :(
Thank you to all the Opera users who brought this to our attention, and sorry about that! We've now restored support for this browser (and we'll try our best not to break it again :)
Remember The Milk for Gmail (minor update)
Thursday, June 26, 2008 by Emily Boyd
If you're a Firefox 2 user, you may have experienced problems with our Remember The Milk for Gmail Firefox extension over the past day or so — recent changes to Gmail's code were preventing our extension from loading properly in this browser version (you may have noticed this if RTM for Gmail suddenly disappeared from your Gmail account!).
A new version of the extension that works with Gmail's code changes is now available. Firefox should update the extension automatically, but you can also manually tell your browser to update by going to "Tools" then "Add-ons", and clicking on "Find Updates".
Alternatively, you can always take this opportunity to upgrade to Firefox 3… ;)
We're growing!
Thursday, June 26, 2008 by Emily Boyd
After a series of rather unexpected events (the Apple Design Award being just one of them!), we've been experiencing higher than usual traffic in RTM land.
In fact, over the past two weeks, an additional 60,000 people have joined RTM (Hi everyone! Welcome! :). We're still adding hardware to accommodate everyone — we added more last week, but we'll need to schedule maintenance this weekend to perform additional upgrades (details on that coming soon in a separate post).
In the meantime, we apologise for any site slowness, particularly during peak times — i.e., when it hits 9am in the US Eastern, Central, and Pacific timezones (and there are huge numbers of you guys logging in, anxious to get to your tasks!).
Due to the high traffic, we're also receiving a higher than usual volume of support emails — we're working to respond to everyone as quickly as we can, but I wanted to apologise for any delays (we have a limited number of humans on the team, and the monkey and the cow just aren't much help with support). Thanks for your patience!
Bob's WWDC 2008 adventures
Thursday, June 19, 2008 by Emily Boyd
Ever wondered what it would be like to be a stuffed monkey attending a big Apple conference with more than 5,000 humans? Wonder no longer! We took Bob along to WWDC 2008 last week to answer this very question.
From lining up to see Steve Jobs present the keynote at Moscone West, to learning new coding tricks in the sessions and labs, to partying at Yerba Buena Gardens, all evidence points to Bob enjoying himself greatly.
Now supported: the fantabulous Firefox 3
Thursday, June 19, 2008 by Emily Boyd
It was downloaded over 8 million times yesterday, so I'm sure that many of you have Firefox 3 already (if you don't, get it now — it's awesome!).
We're happy to announce that all RTM features now have full support for Firefox 3 — that includes the Remember The Milk for Gmail Firefox extension, all gadgets and modules, and of course the web app itself.
In addition to having tons of new features, Firefox 3 is significantly faster than Firefox 2 (making RTM run faster too :), so if you're a Firefox fan, we'd strongly recommend upgrading if you haven't already.
Wow! Remember The Milk wins Apple Design Award
Friday, June 13, 2008 by Emily Boyd
We're at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco this week (yes, Bob T. Monkey too), and last night went along to the Apple Design Awards. These prestigious awards recognise "technical excellence, innovation, and outstanding achievement in software development".
So, you can imagine how hugely honoured we were when Remember The Milk for iPhone & iPod touch was named the winner in the Best iPhone Web Application category! A big thanks to everyone at Apple, and all the RTM users who've supported us. Congratulations too, to all the other winners — there were some fantastic applications represented at the Awards, and we were thrilled to be in such incredible company. :)