In South Africa we have our most significant vacation over December. The only snow we have is fake, on Christmas trees, inside the house or in malls. Our vacations consist of going to the beach in Cape Town or visiting the Kruger nature reserve. Hats, short pants sunscreen - that kinda thing.
In my case the vacation was spent in an retirement village (don't ask) in the hills, coding away into the night, working on improving Tudumo performance. I returned home and mailed out the app to some users who are kind enough to help me test releases, and immediately realised that actually there was one more, much tougher, task that I'd been putting off for many months. Dang. So it was back to the rework.
To cut a long story short, the last couple of updates should have been significantly faster and more reactive to user input. If you have a lot of data, Tudumo should fly compared to how it was working in the past.
Today there's another update with various changes and a couple of new features. The one I hope makes Tudumo a better tool is the archive. If enabled, the auto-archive will start on load and move all items older than a specified age to your /Archive directory, saving them to CSV files, one file per month. You can load the CSV files in Excel or anything that reads text, so you always have your old data as reference and can chop it up, merge it or graph it in a tool far better than I could build. As a side benefit, this lets you keep your Tudumo data nice and clean.
For a look at the rest of the changes, wander over to the Tudumo changelog.
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