As I’ve written here before, we’re really big fans of the efficiency and simplicity of command lines here at Zetetic. We actively use them at points in the PingMe and Tempo are considering expanding our use of them, in particular to include Graphical Keyboard User Interfaces.

So, some interesting reading:

• Mozilla UI designer Alex Faaborg on the GKUI
• Introductory article on Mozilla’s Ubiquity project
• Don Norman’s article on the return of the CLI for the ACM
• Aza Raskin’s (Humanized.com / Enso developer) blog post on the return of the CLI

ANYTHING is possible in PL/SQL.

We need to make an adjustment to how Tempo handles tags in order to squash a bug that keeps popping up on some users. Basically, we’re only going to allow tags to contain letters, numbers, hyphen and underscore. Any other characters (like parentheses, +, and *) will be converted to underscores automatically.

If you enter sys+admin as one of your tags you will get sys_admin instead, which we think isn’t so bad, really. This change will be going into production tonight.

While I’m waiting for my Windows VM to reboot, just figured I’d mention that Oracle’s free tool SQL Developer totally rocks. And it supports MySQL for you geeks out there (POSTGRES 4EVA!!!!!)

It makes coding and testing complex PL/SQL fairly painless. It’s built on Java and runs on Mac OS X beautifully.

We made a couple of maintenance updates to Tempo last night, and added in a couple of features that numerous users have been asking us for:

• “Yesterday” date range selection, which we now use all the time.
• Inclusion of locked status on time export, a flag that some use to track whether or not they’ve billed for an entry already.