I've just released a new version of What-Am-I-Doing on to the test URL. As a click once application it should (and has) downloaded to the users who are using it from this URL.

The most exciting development is the changes to the interface along the lines of "What are you trying to do" rather than my previous geeky / as it developed interface. The changes have led to some simplification and some duplication - which is intentional.

The main allocation screen has been altered so that it's easier to see the list of customers, and the list other projects. Todays allocated items has moved from the left to the right - which kind of makes sense in a work flow - you're moving stuff from left to right. You can also double click on this grid to allocate directly to a project. This works as people do tend to work on a set of projects in a day. More often than not, the rules have already allocated to the project so its just a case of using the items there. 

I still feel the need to add projects from the main allocation screen. It's really annoy me if, after selecting some entries I realized that I needed to change screen to add a project. On the other hand, the customer / project management screen is much easier to use in isolation when  setting up new customers and projects..

The Rules screen has not changed much - it's just come into the same screen rather than being a dialog. This area probably needs some more work, but that can be for the next release.

Behind the scenes, there's a significant change. On the setup screen you can now change the URL that the data is logged to. The default is, of course, http://www.whatamidoing.co.uk, but if you double click this text box then it'll ask you for a company name. The entered company name is checked against the main database and the appropriate URL is returned. This is important as it means that I can ship 1 application and it can serve both standard customers and the people that are running it on an in-house server. It also means that I maintain the control over who can use an internal / company specific URL.

If you've got any comments on the interface please let me know.

Having thought about it a while, I've decided to publish the prices for What Am I Doing on the website.

 Have also added pages about the addins available to help with getting better information from Outlook and Visual Studio.

While What-Am-I-Doing has been succesfully starts on XP and Windows 7, the user account control stuff has stopped it starting succesfully on vista machines if you're not the administrator.

There's a few people on the web that have been addressing this problem, the info in this post allowed me to fix this issue.

The key things are:

• On first run create a link to the appref-ms file, and put it in the SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run registry key
• Switch off automatic updates
• Manage the update in the program.

The only problem with this approach is that if the app is uninstalled then the link is left in the registry key.

About a year ago, I wrote the data capture part of an app to try to help me work out where I was spending my time. Because time was short, I left it running in the background 12 months aod forgot about it. Over the Christmas break, I finally got round to analysing some of this data.

I learnt a few things about how I work which has resulted in me re-thinking some of my proceses.

I'm now continuing to log the data, and will see what the results are for the next few months.