Anyone looking to stay productive with their work, errands or chores keeps a to-do list. You need to have that to-do list available at all times and be easy to manage.

With that in mind, I am introducing an application that I think will help you with that: Cheqlist. A desktop application powered by Remember The Milk that does 2 things very well: make managing tasks very efficient and look sweet on your desktop.

What makes Cheqlist awesome

I wanted to build an application that I, myself, would use everyday. There are a few key features that would make that happen:

• Adding tasks quickly using RTM’s new Smart Add feature
• Visual appeal and lots of room for customization. Special thanks to Rakesh Menon for allowing me to use his JavaFX color picker
• Easily search tasks and use RTM’s custom search keywords
• Must work on all the OSes I use: Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

On top of that, I think there are some things you’ll come to appreciate:

• Easy-update: Cheqlist checks for updates on startup, and if you want to upgrade, it takes just seconds!
• Free and open-source
• Lots of nice “easter egg” features for those of you who take time to find them ;)

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I was interviewed by Mark Sanborn and Jade Robbins on the Faceoff Podcast.

Restrain yourself from making fun of my geeky voice and focus instead on the awesomeness of Selenium, a fantastic web-application testing tool. I talk about what Selenium is, some features and uses, and speculate on possible future extensions.

The interview starts at the 12th minute or so. That said, I have learned a lot from these guys and think you’d benefit from giving their podcast a listen.

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I’ve written a guest post titled Improve your YSlow grade using htaccess over at the David Walsh Blog.

In it, I explain a bit about how browser caching works, how setting headers can affect caching and what you can use in your .htaccess file (or Apache httpd.conf) to maximize it.

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