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Ask Slashdot: Issue Tracker For Non-Engineers? 144

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 12, 2015 @12:32PM from the who-did-what-when-where-why-and-to-whom? dept.

purplie writes My non-technical spouse is an analyst in a small county government department, a handful of people plus some contractors for projects. Their project/task management is mouth-to-mouth, sticky notes, and emails, and it's driving them crazy. I want to suggest something like an issue tracker. It would have to work for tasks both large (year-long investigations) and small (arranging catering for a meeting). The issue trackers I'm familiar with are too software-development-oriented, or make too many assumptions about your 'agile' religion. Are there any good options for non-engineers? They use mainly Windows and have iPads. I don't like web-based tools, but that might work better for them because they don't have administrative privs on their machines. Something that also incorporates a wiki might be nice. There will be resistance if it's not really easy to use.

Android 5.0 Makes SD Cards Great Again 214

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @10:41AM from the now-if-you-could-just-add-some-SD-slots-to-nexus-devices dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Over the past couple of years, Google has implemented some changes to how Android handles SD cards that aren't very beneficial to users or developers. After listening to many rounds of complaints, this seems to have changed in Android 5.0 Lollipop. Google's Jeff Sharkey wrote, "[I]n Lollipop we added the new ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE intent. Apps can launch this intent to pick and return a directory from any supported DocumentProvider, including any of the shared storage supported by the device. Apps can then create, update, and delete files and directories anywhere under the picked tree without any additional user interaction. Just like the other document intents, apps can persist this access across reboots." Android Police adds, "All put together, this should be enough to alleviate most of the stress related to SD cards after the release of KitKat. Power users will no longer have to deal with crippled file managers, media apps will have convenient access to everything they should regardless of storage location, and developers won't have to rely on messy hacks to work around the restrictions."

Comment Second phone line (Score 1) 96

by grunyon on Thursday February 08, 2001 @05:05AM (#447122) Attached to: Get Free World Dial-Up -- With a Few Catches

So you would have to get a second phone line if you wanted to make local calls in case somebody from across the globe is using it.

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