http://blog.joesgoals.com Musings about productivity, goals, getting things done, and tools to help along the way Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:33:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a quick update. For some reason Joe's Goals has become very unstable in the past few days. I've made a few changes on the database and I've bumped everyone to Joe's Goals 2.0 (which seems to perform better) as I research the issue. Nothing certain yet but thank you ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2010/04/07/outages-errors-oh-my/ ChannelFlip is a v-log doing reviews of online software (among a number of other things). Earlier this year they did a comedic review of Joe's Goals and as a follow-up award Joe's Goals a reward for site they use the most. Pretty sweet! You can see the rewards show here and ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2009/12/23/joes-goals-wins-award/ As you may have noticed, Joe's Goals had a lot of down time over the last couple of days. I think it is cleared up though. Mostly it related the database and I had to archive some old data to make it work. If you are an active user your ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2009/07/11/joe-outage/ JSConf 2009 in Alexandria VA was simply the best conference I've ever been to. Two days, April 24th and 25th, filled with amazing speakers, fantastic tech demos, great social events, good food, and tons of fun. The conference was crafted by Chris Williams and his wife Laura as a labor ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2009/04/29/thisjsconf-win/ It isn't often that Joe's Goals gets a video review and this one was so random I felt I should pass it along. The video comes from Channel Flip, a British video entertainment site. http://blog.joesgoals.com/2009/04/09/crazy-joes-goals-review/ I've got a new project finally coming out of beta testing and I'm very excited to finally announce it. The project is called Most Recent and it lives at mostrecent.net. Most Recent was born out of frustration with the quality and scope of popular social news/bookmark sites. For every good link ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2009/03/16/joes-new-project-mostrecentnet/ A new version of Joe's Goals is now live with a number of minor bug fixes and improvements. Thanks to everyone who keep writing in suggestions and bug reports. I've got some exciting things coming down the pipe for the next few months so stay tuned. What got fixed: The badge new ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2009/02/17/joes-goals-21-bug-fixes/ I'm going to be giving one of the presentations at JSConf2009. Scheduled for April 24th and 25th JSConf2009 is a conference for JavaScript developers and will be taking place just outside Washington DC. I'll speaking on TaffyDB, a free JavaScript library I wrote that is at the heart of Joe's ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2009/01/30/ian-speaking-at-jsconf2009/ I've been working on this JavaScript News and Resources page and I'm looking for more content. The basic idea is to build out a one page reference to easily access the highest quality content related to JavaScript. I know there is a lot more out here so this is my ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2009/01/04/got-javascript-resources/ Everyone loves a good resolution. They just hate working at it. It is easy to look at a mountain and see yourself standing on the peek...next year. It is harder when you reach the base and face that long, difficult, and boring hike. But the rewards are worth it. Follow ... http://blog.joesgoals.com/2009/01/01/new-years-resolution-achieve-your-goals/