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Joe speaks Portuguese, and other updates

Greetings everyone and welcome Kim Komando listeners. With the help of Kim we’ve crossed 12,000 users. Awesome! Five months ago, when Joe’s Goals got off the ground, I never thought it would have made it this far. The sky really is the limit.
Anyway, this is just a quick check in with a few updates to […]

Google Gadget: Add Joe’s Badge to your Personal Homepage

Thanks to the awesome coding skills of Daniel Beck you can now add your Joe’s Goals badge to your Google Personalized Homepage! Daniel is a Technical Writing undergraduate student at the University of Central Florida. Everyone give him a round of applause! You can view his blog by clicking on his name above.
To add the […]

Quick guide to making a transparent favicon

I’m so happy! I finally figured out how to make a transparent favicon. It seems like not a month goes by that I hear from some Joe’s Goals user who tells me how much they really like the application and use it daily, but would really like it if I could just fix one little […]

Couple of small code updates

Just wanted to let you know I made a couple of small updates to Joe’s Goals today. Nothing too major, but I’ve listed them below:

Refreshed landing pages and removed some old/outdated text.
Set badges up so that they now display on your goal grid when you turn them on. This is a great way to see […]

Weight Tracking and the High Cost of Being Overweight

According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, in 2003-2004, an estimated 66 percent of U.S. adults were overweight or obese, along with 17 percent of children and adolescents. The total annual cost of obesity was an estimated $117 billion in 2000.
J.D. has a great article up at Get Rich Slowly talking about the […]

Introducing Joe’s Goals Badges - plus bug fixes and more

“How can I show my score to my friends?” That is one of the most common requests I get as captain of the H.M.S. Joe’s Goals. Well ask no longer!
Today, thanks to the mad Jedi coding powers of an ordinary Joe’s Goals user, we are introducing Badges. Joe’s Goals Badges are live graphics that you […]

In the news: Screencast for Logbook, Reviews, and more

So back when I launched Joe’s Goals I was really excited/blown away when someone put up a Screencast of my little baby application. Now the good people at Screeniac have done it again with a very good Screencast of the combined Joe’s Goals/Joe’s Logbook application. This is an excellent resource if you’ve been having touble […]

Ian’s Webcast on Joe’s Goals, Ajax, and ColdFusion

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I was asked by a Connecticut ColdFusion User Group to do a quick web presentation on Joe’s Goals, ColdFusion, and Ajax. David O Mally, the Lord High Ruler of said group, recorded the audio webcast via Adobe Breeze and made it available here. I thought it may […]

Joe at the Connecticut ColdFusion User Group Oct 10th

Well Joe himself won’t be there, but Ian will be giving a web cast presentation about Joe’s Goals and ColdFusion/Ajax development. You can read the announcement here and find out more details about the user group here. Topics we’re likely to cover are the Yahoo User Interface and general ColdFusion hacking. Hope to see you […]

Joe’s Goals Passes 10,000 Registered Users

Today, October 3rd 2006, Joe’s Goals registered its 10,000th user! That number just blows the socks off my initial hopes and projections. I would have been happy with a thousand users by this point in time, but ten thousand?! Sweet!
The site has truly been a labor of love (money doesn’t grow on websites the same […]