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andyatkinson replied on October 07, 2009 00:55 to the question "Is anyone else's Macbook losing plastic around the edge of the keyboard?" in Apple:

Add one more person to the list. I was surprised to see pictures of the exact same crack on my machine. I bought mine in early 2008, so I've had it for about 18 months. I I have also had two iPhones replaced in 1 year. I'm less than impressed with Apple's quality in the last few years.

andyatkinson replied on April 30, 2009 16:56 to the problem "Javascript slow script errors in Safari 3." in Pivotal Labs:

No. I did have the browser open for a very long time, I have not seen this issue on my work machine where I am more frequently opening and closing a browser tab or window with PT.

andyatkinson reported a problem in Pivotal Labs on April 29, 2009 00:48:

Javascript slow script errors in Safari 3.

I have had safari running for probably 24 hours, and am getting the slow script errors. Not sure whether this is reproducible and I understand it is probably an edge case and will be low in priority, but I did want to report it since I hade to Force Quit Safari to recover, which was not good.

andyatkinson started following the question "How do I find unassigned or unowned stories?" in Pivotal Labs.

andyatkinson started following the idea "It would be nice to have another bucket for 'deleted' stories" in Pivotal Labs.

andyatkinson shared an idea in Pivotal Labs on March 17, 2009 22:57:

Story sub items with checkbox before accept/deliver

The user interface of PT shows stories as collapsed for me, so only the title of the story is showing. The description and comments are only displayed if I expand the story. The workflow I usually have is to click Deliver and Accept on stories without actively expanding the story, my guess this is typical. Therefore if I put sub items in the story, the chance of me reviewing each of those sub items is low. One solution I thought of was if I created sub tasks, then before the story could be delivered or accepted, the story had to be expanded (UI forced this) and the user had to click on the checkbox for each of the sub items, then the story could be accepted/delivered. If the user created no sub items, expanding the story would not be necessary.

andyatkinson started following the idea "Grouping stories together" in Pivotal Labs.

andyatkinson shared an idea in Pivotal Labs on March 03, 2009 17:03:

Allow team members to vote on icebox items

It would be nice if team members could vote on items in the icebox. Pivotal Tracker makes it very easy to capture stories, however if team member want to come in later and review icebox items, they are limited to adding a comment to the icebox item. It would be nice to gauge interest by adding a simple +1 or -1 voting system, that way team members could periodically review logged items and raise or lower their priority.

andyatkinson asked a question in PictureSync on February 10, 2009 02:54:

Data corruption: navigation between fullscreen annotation (command+0) applies metadata to wrong photo

On Build 16, I load in a batch (35 photos in this case), order it by date, reverse the order, select the first one, hit "Command+0" for fullscreen editing, type in some details, advance through a few pictures. Now when I exit fullscreen annotation editing with escape, I see the metadata is applied to the wrong photos. I close Picturesync, and re-add the photos, and verify that the metadata is incorrectly applied to the wrong photos, it is not a specific pattern, but it appears to be "off by one" for my last couple of edits. I consider this a very serious error. Fortunately I have not annotated many photos, so I can manually make the changes.

I encounter the above error when updating the incorrectly annotated photo.

andyatkinson asked a question in PictureSync on February 08, 2009 22:11:

Google Earth geotag inaccuracies

After doing a batch of photos of the golden gate bridge, editing around 8 photos in a picturesync batch of 28, half of the geotagged photos showed in the location I expected after uploading to flickr, and half showed up in Oakland! Flickr Maps geotag interface makes it very easy to drag the incorrect locations group over to the other (with a "snap" effect) and update the coordinates on the incorrect photos, but now I'm out of sync with what is on my hard drive.

I am going to stop using PictureSync for Google Earth geotagging for now since I'd rather have no data than inaccurate data. In general I would prefer a map interface to tag rather than text data, helps ensure accuracy in the data entry phase. Hopefully PictureSync geotagging will get more robust.

andyatkinson reported a problem in PictureSync on February 08, 2009 21:50:

Repeated upload attempts upload the whole batch

Getting failed uploads for Flickr, hitting upload again appears to re-upload the whole batch, so first I might have had "7 failed out of 28" then I hit upload again and "1 completed, 27 failed out of 28", I would expect repeated upload attempts to upload only the failed ones. I would also appreciate more information why the uploads failed.

UPDATE- all the uploads were there after I manually verified them on Flickr. So I think the upload failed/success count is incorrect, I would expect there to be a manual sync process that runs after that verifies the upload status.

andyatkinson started following the problem "Stay logged in for the duration of my browser session" in Pivotal Labs.

andyatkinson started following the idea "Would be great if Pivotal remembered my previous section layout, i.e. "My Work"" in Pivotal Labs.

andyatkinson started following the idea ""My Work" as the default view" in Pivotal Labs.

andyatkinson started following the problem "Can't set default view for project(s)." in Pivotal Labs.