Archive for January, 2007

Joe’s Goals helps user fight Migraines

Bradley knew his migraine headaches were bad. Bad enough to even send him to the emergency room on occasion. Then one day someone suggested he try bicycle riding. Getting his old bike out of the garage he started riding a mile every day. Gradually he worked himself into shape and noticed that his headaches were […]

Speed reading with Zap Reader and Spreeder

Got another article up over on DownLoad Squad. It covered two application that let you speed read content on the internet. Thought you all might find it useful and worth a read. You can read the article here.

I’ve been an on again off again speed reader for some time. Every couple of years I find […]

Ian to speak in Seattle about Ajax/Yahoo User Interface

Thursday February 1st -  I’ll be speaking at the Seattle ColdFusion Users Group at 6:30 PM on the first. The topic will be the Yahoo User Inteface and Ajax. I’ll probably talk a little bit about Joe’s Goals as well as other projects I’ve worked on. If you are a developer or other interested party […]

Download: SLang lets your plan your book like a pro

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New review up on Download Squad of SLang. Check it out here.
We all have at least one good novel in us, or so I’ve been told. For myself I know I have at least a few mediocre novels trying to work their way out. My ultimate dream is to one day write the next Harry […]

The people have spoken - report links are back!

So sometimes you don’t find out how much something is used until you move it. I just completed a quick update rolling back a few of the changes I made last week. The 30, 60, 90 report links are now back and the logbook now features a save link instead of a close button for […]

Happy Birthday: Joe is turning 25!

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Good morning everyone. Tomorrow I turn 25. That’s right, I’ll be a quarter century old! Can you believe it? I can’t. I’m looking forward to spending the next 25 years with my beautiful wife though. I guess I should be, seeing as how I spent the last 25 growing up enough to “win” her.
So I’m […]

Article: The tipping point for online games

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I posted a new article on Download Squad. Check it out.
Have browser based games reached their tipping point? The evidence says yes. And this will quickly lead to a huge influx of better and more accessible browser based games pushing an old industry into the mainstream for the first time. Let me explain.

Joe becomes a Download Squad Contributor

Good morning everyone! Today I’m really excited to announce that I’ve become a blogger over at the Download Squad blog. I’ll be doing weekly or semi-weekly posts on products and applications I use to “hack” my life. This page will update with a list of my posts and I encourage you to bookmark it to […]

Joe’s Goals gets new reporting interface

Up until know my main focus has been the Joe’s Goals tracker itself and the reporting features have received little attention. Over the weekend I began testing and deploying a brand new reporting interface with four initial reports. The reports are pretty simple but let you access and crunch your tracker data and in new […]

Misc Updates and Bug Fixed

Thanks for all the bug reports! Details below:

Fixed Email Validation Script. Updated for all forms. Hopefully there won’t be as many problems with GMAIL tagged email addresses and the like. Please let me know via the feedback for if you have any trouble logging in.
Fixed issue with check counts and days since last check numbers […]