I use the free student edition of FogBugz to manage my relatively busy schedule. It's pretty damn useful.
If you want one, just go to FogBugz.com and create a trial account. Once you're in the trial, go here:
I also use the iGoogle homepage to keep track of the assorted events that are of interest to me.
Until today, my 'homepage' has been set to a two-tab collection: iGoogle, and FogBugz.
But wait! iGoogle has tabs, and can embed RSS feeds! Saved filters in FogBugz can be viewed as RSS Feeds!
This enables the following:
1. My most important filters can live on my homepage!
2. I can have a FogBugz tab which can show me samples of the 9 top items from every filter that I care about(and also provide me with a quick link to FogBugz):
3. I can enter a detailed view of a given filter, thus gaining a complete view:
(…And I can click on the listed items in order to directly open them in FogBugz!)
Sweet.
5 comments:
Excellent tip! Thank you
Great trick but how do you get iGoogle to authenticate to your FogBugz account?
Hi Antik,
This little gem can be found in the FogBugz documentation of its RSS feeds:
"Note: Some RSS readers may not support cookies, making it impossible for them to keep you logged on to FogBugz. To work around this problem, you will need to append your user name and password to the end of your feed link manually:
FogBugz generated URL&sEmail=email&sPassword=password
If FogBugz is set up to use LDAP authentication, the password to use will be the non-LDAP password set in FogBugz before LDAP authentication was enabled."
It did the trick for me.
Which gadget are you using for the feeds?
Hi Keith,
I suppose the cleanest answer to your question is that the feed is the gadget. The nomenclature is a bit odd though, so perhaps this will clarify:
Go to your iGoogle Homepage
Go to "Add Stuff"
At the bottom of the left pane, there's a link with an RSS icon that says "Add feed or gadget". Click that.
Enter the url of the feed of your choice, click 'add', and you're done.
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