doodle dabbles

As an IT consultant who subcontracts from various companies, I enter my hours in at least 3 different systems on any given day.

1. My own company’s system hosted on Freshbooks – This is the master copy since my invoicing is driven by it
2. Quickbooks, two of my clients use it and require me to enter hours in there for accurate billing
3. GHG’s Timesheet software – err… this abomination of an app barely functions, forget asking for an API

I want to be able to record hours on all 3 systems in one click or even from my iPhone.

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I encountered the following error in FireBug (FireFox) on jQuery’s ui.core.js that halts execution of the rest of my scripts:

illegal character

Illegal Character error in Firebug

The last time I encountered this problem, I renamed the file a few times and that fixed it. Yes, that makes no sense but as long as it was fixed, I just went about my merry self until it happened again today, and no amount of file renaming would fix it. So I did a little bit of investigation to figure out exactly why this happened.

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