http://blog.joesgoals.com Musings about productivity, goals, getting things done, and tools to help along the way Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:08:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TaffyDB 1.5 is out with some big improvements and capabilities. To download and learn more you can go here. I'm also looking for feedback on the feature list and suggestions for 1.6. You can see a quick summary of the proposed features on the mailing list and reply via the list ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2008/06/27/taffydb-15-and-suggestions-for-16/ There as been a lot of improvements with Taffy DB since I first open sourced it on March 10th. Aside from being faster and smaller there are also a ton of new ways to search and use your data when you have it within a Taffy DB collection. In case ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2008/05/01/taffy-db-version-14/ There are blog posts and then there are blog posts. Rarely does a blog post hit the nail on the head as cleanly as Henrik Edberg's 16 things I wish they had taught me in school. Besides the obvious "I should have thought of that" factor, the article really sounds ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2008/04/11/16-things-i-wish-they-had-taught-me-in-school/ How to be an Original just put up a great post with some quick tips and tricks on how to use Joe's Goals. Some highlights: Configuring your goals and habits Using logbooks as dividers. How to use bonus points for "perfect" days. Sorting your goals. The biggest benefit of using Joe’s Goals is the fact that ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2008/04/03/joes-goals-tips-and-tricks/ I'm pretty exited about Pixar's upcoming robot film called Wall-E. The premise is that Wall-E is a robot left on earth to clean up all the trash humans left behind when they flew off into the stars. Or, to put it another way, he's a robot with a job. Watch the ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2008/03/10/pixar-wall-e-and-the-virtue-of-work/ I'd like to take a moment to introduce something I've been working on a while: TaffyDB. TaffyDB is a free (opensource) JavaScript database for Ajax applications. It works by creating a thin (under 10K) data layer within your application. You can insert, update, delete, order, loop, and query against the data ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2008/03/10/taffydb-a-javascript-database-for-your-browser/ Good evening everyone. Well I've stomped a few more bugs and added back a few of the features missing from the new version (the badge). Things are going very well with 2.0 and most users are now on the new version. I still need to add the reports and ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2007/12/17/more-bugs-stomped/ Bugs be gone! The 2.0 update is going very well. Fixed a issue keeping it from running at all in Safari, fixed several problems with the logbook, and greatly increased the speed for larger accounts. I think it is about time to start rolling it out to more testers. You'll get ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2007/11/26/update-on-20/ It has been a long time in coming but Joe's Goals 2.0 is finally rolling out of development and into a closed beta test. Everybody say woot! What's new? This is a complete rebuild of the core application with an emphasis on speed, ease of use, and scalability. Here are the ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2007/11/20/joes-goals-20/ The surest way to be more productive, to be more consistent, and to accomplish what you've set for yourself is to track. Track, track, track. Track in detail. Track daily. Dieters know this, businesses know this, and Joe's Goals users know this. James Gross is a Lawyer and Joe's Goals user ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2007/11/05/how-one-lawyer-uses-joes-goals/