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Merlin Projects on iPhone

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 11. March 2010

We have submitted the next update for Merlin on the iPhone to the App Store and wait for its approval.

It will carry the version number 1.0.4 and includes the following issue fixes:

  • The iPhone app has now a new icon and a new title. Its former title “Merlin” is now part of the icon and the application itself is called “Projects”; so it reads “Merlin Projects”.
  • The navigation view is now properly positioned even after cancelling the image picker in the file elements view.
  • Under some circumstances it was not possible to enter the completion percentage.
  • Added a workaround for a bug in the 3.2 beta version of the iPhone SDK.
  • The Gantt view wasn’t refreshed after a sync operation.
  • Under some circumstances Merlin iPhone did crash on start.
  • The stability in general is improved.

We hope Apple approves the new update of Merlin iPhone quickly, and it is soon available in the App Store for download.

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Simply fun

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 29. January 2010

Just found at joygeekculture.com/joyoftech
we're getting twins

She: iPhone Sweetie I have some special news…

…in about 60 days, you’ll be getting a big brother!

iPhone: …That means I’m just just going to be your phone now!

He:  Did you tell him we’re getting twins?

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iPad… not a rumor anymore

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 28. January 2010

For all of you like me, who straggled to find yesterday a streaming possibility to view Apple’s Special Event, and tried to get informed through live bloggers, or twitter… today it’s all on Apple’s website.

Steve Jobs introducing iPad
Enjoy the Keynote of this beautiful and magical device called ‘iPad’  in various video qualities.

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Tablet on the news…

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 27. January 2010

In MacObserver.com one can read and see a post about a 3 and a half minutes interview of Tery McGraw, (Chairman, President and CEO of McGraw Hill) taken yesterday and based on their fourth quartile earnings growth.

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On 2:49 the CNBC reporter asked about the Apple tablet coming out and  Tery McGraw confirmed:

Yeah, it’s very exciting. They’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. The tablet is going to be based on the iPhone operating system, and so it will be transferable.

According to The Huffington Post…

The rumored Apple Tablet announcement will take place in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater. It is set to begin at 10 AM PST

This is…
08:00AM – Hawaii
10:00AM – Pacific
11:00AM – Mountain
12:00PM – Central
01:00PM – Eastern
06:00PM – London
07:00PM – Paris
09:00PM – Moscow
03:00AM – Tokyo (January 28th)

There is no point to mention, how excited we are and cannot wait to see it. Yesterday’s tomorrow is after all today meanwhile :-)

You can watch the full interview and video in MacObserver.com post.

And check the Macworld live coverage here of the invitation-only event in San Francisco to introducing Apple’s “latest creation.”

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Hello 2010, bye bye 2009!

Frank Blome on 4. January 2010

One lays a bit longer in bed at Christmas, and finds the new year already in full swing when awaking. But wait. Our hibernation was not that deep, we simply granted ourselves a short break. 2009 was after all the most active year in our young history.

Directly on its begin, January 2009, we were in the Macworld and presented Merlin iPhone to the interested visitors.

In February 2009 the beta test of Merlin 2.7 started containing the new version of Merlin Web. A Merlin Twitter presence was also created, with over 750 followers meanwhile.

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Was Merlin a project manager? (part four)

Frank Blome on 20. October 2009

There is usually a long story behind a successful product. This applies for Merlin and my first visions about it in 2003.

Here is how the drama started. Here and here how it continued.

Was Merlin a project manager? (part four)

By the way, the product name “Merlin” was defined even before the first code line was written. We were ProjectWizards; our software simply had to bear a name of a magician. We have many names from the Arthurian legend in use, so the decision was not very far-fetched.
Exactly like the legendary figure Merlin, Arthur’s magician advisor, should our Merlin be a wizard and advisor for project management. There was no necessity in finding a good name considering marketing aspects. Merlin was meant to be sold only to selected partners. Pretty naive…
Frank Illenberger and I held our first kick-off-meeting on November 9th 2004 in Frankfurt. We had talked about the concept, answered questions and mentioned ideas. Frank intended to work two days per week on programming Merlin. We defined a vague target date, as none of us had ever worked on a similar project. At that time Frank had experience on only small programs. Have I mentioned how naive we both were?
Anyway, thanks to Frank’s analytical and meticulous way of working, Merlin’s development took form really quickly. Small and major crises got handled as they appeared.
July 2004 was a watershed event. Apple sent me an invitation to the Apple Expo in Paris. I should present Merlin. Fine, I thought, I would be delighted, but how did Apple come to know about Merlin’s existence? Our Merlin project team had grown meanwhile to 20 persons. Some more involved than others. All of them had signed an NDA but one of them had definitely “blabbed”.
So I flew to Paris to hold a Merlin presentation. Michel Suter greeted me with “I have no more than 20 minutes time”. I started my well-prepared presentation. Michel interrupted me after ten minutes and asked with enthusiasm for the scheduled release date. I tried to explain that we are not planning to release Merlin. His reaction was pretty direct: “I would deserve to get beaten if I would not make such a great program available to all Mac users”. Okay, the message was clear enough. During my flight back to Germany I setup a business plan. The decision was taken: Merlin should be available for the public. The rest, as they say, is history… I do not regret my decision, not for a moment.
Merlin 1.0 was released on November 9th 2004. It was the starting point of the currently most successful project management software. So it seems, we managed to do more things the right way than wrong.

The product name Merlin was defined even before the first code line was written. We were ProjectWizards; our software simply had to bear a name of a magician. We have many names from the Arthurian legend in use, so the decision was not very far-fetched.

Exactly like the legendary figure Merlin, Arthur’s magician advisor, should our Merlin be a wizard and advisor for project management. There was no necessity in finding a good name considering marketing aspects. Merlin was meant to be sold only to selected partners. Pretty naive…

Frank Illenberger and I held our first kick-off-meeting on April 9th 2004 in Frankfurt. We had talked about the concept, answered questions and mentioned ideas. Frank intended to work two days per week on programming Merlin. We defined a vague target date, as none of us had ever worked on a similar project. At that time Frank had experience on only small programs. Have I mentioned how naive we both were?

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Merlin iPhone 1.0.3 available on the App Store

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 15. September 2009

Apple approved the newest version of Merlin iPhone app today.

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The free application is as of now available on the Apple App Store for all iPhone and iPod touch models. We strongly recommend updating your Merlin iPhone app to this new version. We have improved its robustness and communication to Merlin 2.7.2.

More information about Merlin iPhone including documentation, download link or screencasts can be found here…

We would also appreciate your participation in our small survey about iPhone sharing.

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Merlin 2.7.2 (free of charge update!)

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 26. August 2009

buystrip_snow_box_20090824We are pleased to announce the release of Merlin 2.7.2 and Merlin Server 2.7.2 for MacOS X Snow Leopard. Both updates are available as a free download to license holders of Merlin 2 and Merlin Server,
or via the Merlin > Check for Updates… menu item.

What’s new in Merlin 2.7.2 (free of charge update!)

New Features

  • This version is now supporting Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”.
  • Merlin Web: If a text column contains URLs, these URLs are now rendered as links. By clicking on them a new window/tab is opened and the corresponding content is shown.

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New Merlin Version for Snow Leopard

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 17. August 2009

Snow LeopardUPDATE: Merlin 2.7.2 is finally released

Not only  Mac OS X Snow Leopard is in the final spurt. Also the works for Merlin 2.7.2 are  almost finished and we are pleased to announce another pre-release build (#8800). We have tested it against  Mac OS 10.4.11, 10.5.x and 10.6 (10A432) versions. If no major issues arise, we plan to release within the next days.

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Getting the primary email address

Vicky Stamatopoulou on 17. August 2009

When you drag an Address Book card onto an activity, either directly from the Mac OS X Address Book application or out of Merlin’s “Library” dialogue, it will get assigned to this activity and appear in our project management software as a resource. This resource remains linked to the original entry in the Address Book. Changes in the Address Book card, will get transferred automatically to the various Merlin projects where this resource has been assigned to.

Sometimes there could be an issue though in recognizing the prime email address and setting this for the resource. We had reported this issue to Apple in year 2004 as tested the first version of Address Book, but a solution had not been released yet.

Fortunately there is an API to the Address Book, which developers can use when wanting to create add-ons for it.
Taking advantage of this fact we have created an Address Book add-on solving the issue of primary email address and phone number. Our primarily in 2005 released add-on, repairs Address Book and helps Merlin getting the appropriate data for the resources. You can get it for free and it is very easy to install.

  • You download the Address Book Add-On
  • You extract the zip archive and copy the 2 included files into the following directory “~/Library/Address Book Plug-Ins” (~ : stands for your home directory)

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