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Chequerd 2.0
It's been a busy summer of hackery, with the result that we're proud to announce Chequerd 2.0. We've tweaked the design of the site, in addition to adding a slew of new features. Some highlights are: Like a class? Now you can review it. Moreover, we keep track of who teaches ...
Here comes the snow
Snow is like Christmas (even if Halloween isn't here yet) and Christmas is like presents and presents are like new features! We've updated chequerd for Spring 2010, and added a slew of new features and tiny conveniences. Search! With an exclamation point, because this is the big one. Now you can search ...
Updates, updates
As the summer skitters onwards, new features are abloom. Schedule sharing is available at last, and you can enable it from your account page. You can select a 'code word' (we're taxonomically challenged hereabouts), which will allow others to view your schedule at http://www.chequerd.com/share/[yourword]. If you don't feel so inclined ...
Sunny with a chance of bug fixes
Free publicity is always nice, our analytics show a boost in traffic on Friday. Thus encouraged, we've tackled a couple of bugs, the more notable of which is conflict prevention in schedules at last!
Of Languages
Great news! Chequerd is going to be in the Sun in the near future, which will mean a ton of publicity. However, the dangers of fame are ever-present: there is a good chance that our low-cost host will probably collapse under the weight of any meaningful amount of simultaneous users. ...
Quantum Physical Education
Somebody let us know that our schedule was messed up early today, and sure enough, with painful sounding PE classes like Applications of Quantum Mechanics, it was broken. Thankfully, that's now resolved. Back to making new cool features! Look for schedule sharing, personal events, and advanced search to come soon, ...
Crack in the night
Apologies if anyone experienced some trouble with their schedules this morning (before 9.40am), we tried updating the roster with some new algorithms, and broke things accidentally. The good news if you didn't see the craziness, then all is well =). If you did, your saved schedules will be showing up ...
Aaand we’re live!
At long last, after two grueling semesters of toil and labor, we're proud to announce that chequerd.com is finally available to the public! Go wild! Find your perfect semester.
iCal export
[caption id="attachment_13" align="alignright" width="106" caption="iCal support"][/caption] Calendar export is now baked in, it's one click to download your schedule as a standard .ics file, which is compatible with Google Calendar, iCal, Thunderbird, Outlook, and beyond. You no longer have to manually, tediously input everything into your calendar - just export it ...
Playing nice
Finally, IE support is working, after a significant rewrite of the backing store. Now your schedules are stored in JSON instead of XML, which jQuery had trouble parsing in IE. This is exciting because the site mysteriously stopped working in IE ages ago, and because both of us have macs, ...