Weekly Release: Beta feedback enhancements

Still slaving away here on the product this week, getting ready for the holidays at home as well with lots of cookies and parties going on. We've been getting some great feedback from our beta program and we're rolling out some quick fixes of things that we're hearing about a lot. There are a couple bigger features about done that should be rolling out shortly as well. Stay Tuned! Here's the bag of changes we added today:

In the Web Application:

• Added the ability for users to give their own names to tasks so that they can be differentiated in the Management Console.
• We made the overall application larger, it was sort of constrained before to a pretty small window so we grew it a lot, this makes it easier to see stuff and will allow us to add in some more features without over crowding the console.
• We've added some more help topics as well as additional help related information into error messages that better help users understand how to correct data input that may be incorrect.
• We also built out some additional monitoring capabilities into the overall application so that we can have a better handle on the application as it is plugging away day after day!

In the Core Engine:

• A new feature we added in the FTP Storage logic is to name the project directories after the name that you give the project in Basecamp instead of using the project ID we get from Basecamp.
• We added in a retry mechanism to the Basecamp file retrieval logic. We were seeing occasional requests to Basecamp's Amazon Storage for a file were timing out or getting some other error back that was network related. So now if we get that back we'll wait for a bit and then try the file again. This has decreased the missed files that we were seeing. There is lots of error handling required when dealing with such a network dependent application.
• Along those lines, we also added in some additional error handling on the FTP storage logic. There are tons of FTP servers and they all have little nuances that we have to handle. We're getting a lot more robust in handling them as well as the related network issues that come with securely transporting GB's of files and data across the Internet.
• We fixed a bug we discovered around the handling of Basecamp Projects that are archived state.

We have a lot more features coming down the pipe soon. Have a blessed Christmas and a great holiday season. Thanks to all of our beta program participants and a special thanks to those that have actively been providing feedback.