The Grojects! My Project tracking site.
Whew, this Holiday season was busy! Fun, but busy. We were dog-sitting for one of Ciri’s coworkers over the Christmas week which meant that the garage was a bedroom for the dogs during the night. They spent some time in the garage during the weekend which kept me from working on my Cardboard Dog House project. Well, that and weekends were spent celebrating with family as well.
I spent the down time working on Internet projects like my website (check out the re-done Galleries page!) and other stuff. One important project I picked up was The Grojects! Grojects is what I am calling my project tracking system. It’s just a WordPress install with special categories set up to display my progress on specific projects. It took me a while to set up because my server security was compromised. More on that lovely issue this Saturday for The Guamasocast.
The Grojects!
I’ve copied all my projects posts to my Grojects! page and all my future project posts will show up there. I’ll write up my goals and expectations on this blog, but the meat and potatoes will remain on Grojects.
Going along with the newer, more disciplined self, I am going to set a goal for Grojects as well as my expectations of it.
I have sooo many projects and I tend to jump from one thing to another without actually accomplishing anything. With Grojects, my goal is to better allocate my time and energy to projects that need it. It will also help me become more efficient by keeping a list of things that need to get done for that project and when they need to be done by. That deadline is the key issue I am trying to work on with this.
It’s basically a time tracking system but for the web… in blog-ish form… using wordpress. I’m sure an actual software for this purpose exists but that is not the geek way. From chaos, order – this is how we roll. Make one thing do something else – something that it may not have been initially designed to do. Then, complete whatever the task is as efficient as any other solution.
Anyway, that’s Grojects in a nutshell. The Projects link at the top will redirect you to it. It’s still in a rough draft (at best) status, but it’s core functionality is pretty much set. I expect the design to change when I get a chance to play with it. I’ll add a link to it that will redirect back to The Guamaso.