Task Coach Portable 0.78.3 has been released. Task Coach Portable is the popular Task Coach packaged as a portable app so you bring your to-do list and task manager with you so you always stay on top of things. This new release updates Task Coach to the latest release and is packaged directly by the Task Coach development team. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.
Features
Task Coach is a free/open source to-do manager with a friendly interface making it very easy to create, organize, and manage all of your tasks. Task Coach features various handy options such as setting start and completion dates for a task, creating a budget for a task, adding attachments, reminders and more!
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New In This Release
This release updates Task Coach to the latest release (release notes).
Task Coach Portable Development Handoff
Task Coach Portable is now packaged directly by Frank Niessink and Jerome Laheurte, the Task Coach developers. Please join me in thanking them for supporting PortableApps.com, the open standard in portable software! If you're so inclined, you can even make a small donation to them by clicking the button on the Task Coach Portable homepage.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Task Coach Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
Task Coach Portable is available for immediate download from the Task Coach Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Comments
this program keeps getting released, what's up with that??
Good written programs do not get released so very often. This shows how much thought has been put into the design and how coding best practices have been applied. I usually try to avoid programs designed and written this way. I really hope that the author of this program takes a step back and look through his code to make sure we (the users) are not updating every so often.
Pre-1.0
Pre-1.0 software will often have a faster release schedule.
Not that it hurts at all.
It's also worth noting that the PortableApps platform makes such updates completely painless.
"Release early, release often"
"Release early, release often" is a popular software development mantra that most people say they like but never quite manage.
You may not have noticed it, but OS-level updates tend to happen far more regularly: things like Microsoft Update tend to make it painless though so you don't notice much that it installs half a dozen updates every week (arbitrary figure).
different development models
Microsoft updates happen monthly every second Tuesday of the month but anyways, speaking from experience, Agile development I find is acceptable if the business model really demands it, otherwise I would stick with a waterfall type of development especially if it's open source. Would love to hear your opinions and thanks for sharing.
We should really take this
We should really take this into the forums, since it's not at all related to TaskCoach anymore (the conversation branched, as usual), but here's my opinion.
I think newer apps not only can, but should, release updates rapidly - bugs won't hurt apps with long-established reputations for stability as much as they'll hurt new apps with no reputation at all, and one big bug that sits too long could permanently damage, or even kill, a fledgling app.
Once the app gets more stable and accepted, the release cycle can be slowed. There won't be as many features left to implement and (hopefully) not nearly as many bugs/incompatibility problems to fix, so the devs can slow the pace to let others catch up.