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New in Lite Tracker: Expanding Text Fields, Multiple Files, and Drag/Drop File Uploads

We’ve made a few usability improvements to Lite Tracker related to viewing and editing of stories, as well as file attachment handling. All of the story text fields now automatically expand based on the amount of text entered, and they’ll grow as you type. When you expand a

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New in Tracker: Story Assignment Notification and API Additions

We’ve added a new email notification to Lite Tracker which will let you know when someone assigns a story to you. There are also a few new additions to the API, related to projects and iterations. Story Assignment Notification In the typical Tracker workflow, stories stay unassigned as they

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TrackerBot: Lite Tracker on Your iPad/iPhone

TrackerBot, from Vulpine Labs, is a great new app that brings Lite Tracker to your iPad and/or iPhone, complete with multi-touch, drag and drop, and off-line support. It’s available now in the app store. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.

New in Lite Tracker: Reply to Emails, Delete Comments, and Browse Public Projects!

Team collaboration with Lite Tracker just got better. You can now post comments to stories right from your inbox by replying to any story notification email. That’s not all that’s new in this update—we’ve also added the ability to delete unwanted story comments, you can add

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Public Projects Directory and Feed Coming to Tracker

We’re launching a new public projects directory in Lite Tracker this Friday. If you own or use public projects in Tracker, continue reading, as these projects are about to get much easier to discover. This new directory, linked to from the Lite Tracker front page, will show a featured

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20% Tracker Introductory Discount Available Until Feb 18

As part of the recently announced Tracker pricing introduction, we’re offering a 20% discount for the first year. This discount is available until February 18, 2011. The 20% is off the annual prices—which already give you a savings of 2 months, every year. Also, while you do have

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Looking for a Rails Developer to Join the Lite Tracker Team

Pivotal Labs has been at the forefront of agile since it’s early days. We’ve honed our skills on hundreds of successful projects, and evolved agile techniques into a very effective, and practical software development process. Along the way, we also built Lite Tracker, a very popular project management

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Consolidating Tracker Projects into One Account

Accounts in Lite Tracker are used for project organization and administration delegation. They are also what paid subscription plans are associated with. In this article, I’d like to explain what accounts are, and talk about how you can consolidate existing Tracker projects across your company into a single account.

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Changes to Lite Tracker Pricing

Last week, we announced that we’re introducing pricing for Lite Tracker. Since then, we’ve received a great deal of thoughtful and constructive feedback, and we’re very grateful that the majority of you have shown support of Tracker’s move to be a paid product. We really appreciate

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Introducing Lite Tracker Pricing

NOTE: This article has been updated with pricing changes announced on Jan. 28. First, we’d like to thank all Lite Tracker users. We couldn’t be more grateful for all of the support and feedback we’ve received from you. Today, we’re introducing pricing for Tracker. All of

Integrations

Connect Lite Tracker to Flowdock

The team at Flowdock, a real time team communication platform, just announced integration with Lite Tracker. You can now connect Tracker with Flowdock, and see your project activity in the context of your online conversations. See this Flowdock blog post to read more about the new integration. Originally published here.

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New in Lite Tracker: Bugzilla Integration and More

Happy New Year! Lite Tracker has some updates for the new year: we’ve added a built-in integration with Bugzilla, a popular bug tracking tool, redesigned the My Projects page to make it easier to use, and made the Zendesk integration more flexible. More details on all of this below.

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New in Tracker: Updated Look and Google Accounts Sign-in

The Tracker team has been busy since the hosting move last month. We’ve shifted our focus from improving Tracker’s performance and stability, to core product enhancement. This update introduces an updated visual design, as well the first wave of usability improvements. We’ve also added some new features,

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Hosting Move in Progress

We have begun the hosting move, and anticipate the entire process to take approximately 6 hours. For most up-to-date status, please follow @litetracker. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.

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Tracker Hosting Move is Complete

We’ve completed the hosting move, and Lite Tracker is back up. We’ll post more details about the new environment within the next few days. In the meantime, if you experience any problems, please try clearing your browser’s cache as well as all cookies for the litetracker.com

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Lite Tracker Hosting Move This Saturday

Tracker will be moving to a new hosting environment this weekend. This post contains updated information about this move, and how it will affect you. The move will occur this Saturday, November 6th, starting at 8:00am PDT. We expect the move to take approximately 6 hours, including testing and

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Tracker and Session Hijacking

Last week a certain new Firefox extension made headlines by making it trivial to hijack sessions over wireless networks, and easily access unsuspecting users’ accounts on a long list of major social networking and other websites. Lite Tracker had the dubious honor of being on that list. The plugin author’

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Lite Tracker Moving to New Hosting Environment on Nov 6

The last two and a half years have been exciting for Lite Tracker. It’s grown from an internal tool we at Pivotal Labs occasionally shared with clients and friends to a mainstay of the Ruby, Rails and Agile worlds. Over this period, Engine Yard has provided us with their

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Tracker Outage This Morning

Our apologies for the site outage this morning. We’re working with our hosting provider to bring Tracker back up ASAP, and are investigating the cause. For most current updates on the outage, please follow @litetracker. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.

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Tracker Service Restored

Tracker should be fully back to normal as of early afternoon today. Please let us know if you are still experiencing any unusual slowness or connectivity issues. Our apologies for not being able to access your projects this morning. We continue to investigate, and are waiting for our hosting provider

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Extended Lite Tracker Maintenance on Sat, Oct 2 at 12pm PDT

Tracker will be unavailable for approximately three hours this Saturday, Oct 2, starting at 12:00pm (noon) PDT. We’re adding indexes and optimizing DB tables to improve performance. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.

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Defrosting Your Icebox

Lite Tracker makes it easy to add stories to you project. Hit Ctrl-A, type a quick sentence along the lines of “As a user, I can…so that…”. On most of our projects, we find ourselves discovering new stories all the time, based on the continuous feedback loop that Tracker

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New Account Management Features in Lite Tracker

We’re introduced new features in Lite Tracker to help with account management. Accounts tend to stay out of the way for most people, but they can be essential for larger companies, especially consulting companies like ours. They allow users to separate their personal, open source, and company projects, for

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Tracker Maintenance Tonight at 8:30pm PDT

We will be performing a maintenance update to Lite Tracker tonight (Friday, Sep 17) starting at 8:30pm PDT. Anticipated downtime is under one hour. This update will include a few performance improvements, bug fixes, and some new account management features. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.

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Tracker Maintenance Rescheduled to Friday, Sep 10 at 8pm PDT

Due to last night’s brief unplanned outage, related to a necessary database upgrade, we are moving tonight’s scheduled maintenance to this Friday night (Sep 10). The maintenance will begin at 8pm PDT, and we anticipate approximately one hour of downtime. Originally published here. Originally published by: Dan Podsedly.