May 5th, 2009Time Tracker: easy task tracking
Last week Bart Claessens ( one of our certified Flash Developers ) made a small Adobe Air application to track time on different kind of tasks while developing.
Time tracker can come in handy when you want to know the exact time you were working on a specific task. Bart felt in need of application like this to compare his project estimates with the real time he spent on a particular project. As you know a developer has to go to the bathroom, takes a small nap or refills his coffee level. Time tracker allows you to pause development time and resume it when you are back and ready to rock your keyboards buttons off!
A little bit about the application itself: Bart made it in the Flash IDE and compiled it against the Adobe Air 1.5 runtime. Many thanks to Hans Van de Velde for his SteadyTimer class. The SteadyTimer class fixes the lagging problem of the AS3 Timer class.
We hope you guys enjoy it and if you have any cool ideas to make it even better, let us know.
Please mind that this is only the first version. It still needs some extra work because it doesn’t check for user input and stuff like that.
Download the .air installer: here (you’ll need Adobe Air 1.5 runtime)
Download the sources: here
Screenshot:
Time Tracker
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May 5th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Looks slick !
May 5th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
http://www.formassembly.com/time-tracker/ does the same thing but without flash.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:10 am
This is a device I could use. I always keep wondering how long it took to do a task. Billing would become so much easier.
May 18th, 2009 at 10:36 am
i think this is kind of useless. i dunno.
May 19th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Do I need to enter each task manually and start/stop them manually?
May 25th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Interesting program. Thanks.
May 26th, 2009 at 11:22 am
I thought someone would have created one of these already?
May 29th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Hmm, I will see, i work for 15 minutes and break is 45 minutes long
June 12th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
congratulations for application is more interesting in flash
June 13th, 2009 at 9:26 am
I love the way it works!
June 20th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
This is a great programs.
June 24th, 2009 at 6:54 am
I hope the Time Tracker will help me to know the development time my team takes for a piece of code. I just downloaded .air and let us see how it works.
Thanks for sharing this information.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
a good tool for me, thank you
June 30th, 2009 at 7:07 am
That’s a really nice and useful tool,thanks for sharing
July 15th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
oh! good news,love this post.
July 20th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
That is awesome
July 21st, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Hmmm, cool thing, but not so handy to manage todo lists
Do you use any project management tools, like basecamp for example?
Anyway thanks for sharing, using Adobe Air seems to be popular trend
July 24th, 2009 at 1:22 am
very nice, thanks
July 27th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
What a great idea, and tool to carry out the job. Many people, myself included, often spend a high proportion of time on certain aspects not realizing just how much time is being spent and being able to see that and compare it with actual revenue is a great tool for any profession.
Thanks
Regards
Adirec
August 10th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Something hosted online would be cool- so it didn’t rely on you being at a specific PC. I am mobile and like to keep my options open.
August 12th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
This is really useful, as long as you can use it personally for your work. What will happen if this is something that is on your computer, and your manager has access to it? I think it is good, but it also depends on the usage.
August 17th, 2009 at 11:48 am
It should be noted that Time Tracker is very useful program. I find it useful to use it for my own task management purposes.
October 9th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
This is reeallllllly cool, but I’m not sure I want to see the results, lol. Perfect for holding ourselves accountable when we have no boss to do that for us. Isn’t the lack of accountability the reason we work for ourselves?