Posted by Jacob Wright in Applications, GeneralMay 15th, 2006 | 5 Comments
I find myself always seeking for the perfect code, the perfect library, the perfect system. Is it healthy? My employer might rather a code monkey which will mass produce web applications. Sure, the code would be a pain to maintain, but we would make more money. Or would we?
I was contracted by my company for awhile to one of their clients. While I was there I started making my own JavaScript tree menu in my spare time. The developers I worked with asked why I would do something like that. There are already a handful of tree menus free for download on the web. I was doing it because, one, I thought...
Posted by Jacob Wright in ApplicationsMay 10th, 2006 | 2 Comments
MyStickies has had a great launch. It has been pretty successful. Quite a few users have a hard time setting it up, but once that is done, they enjoy using it. As of the time of this writing 17,982 accounts were created, 119,400 notes have been placed, 31,108 notes are currently sitting on pages accross the web and we are getting between 50 and 100 new users each day. MyStickies started off with a “Beta” tag on it, but went public without the beta label though it probably should have kept it. Unicode support was broken, usability was lacking, and databases had moments of down-time.
Why...
Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralJan 19th, 2006 | 11 Comments
Finally, after months of work (part-time) MyStickies is live. What is MyStickies? Sticky notes for the web, and much more.
MyStickies is a javascript script that can draw notes on web pages and tag them. The notes are saved to an online account and whenever you come back to the page, the notes will load back up.
The account you create on MyStickies.com is also great because you can manage your notes from there. You can see what your most recent notes are. You can view them by domain, or by tag. You can even open them right there to view and/or edit their content.
To get started you can...
