In honor of Earth Day (April 22nd), Days Since is going green. Now, when you add a new copy of Days Since you' ll get a set of default reminders like days since I rode my bike instead of driving or days since I took a quick shower (and if you' re like me, quick [...]

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Alyce asked: Bernie, I’m working on a Disaster Housing project in New Orleans/Gulf Coast. Is there some way for me to permanently code in Days Since Katrina Aug 29 2005 (928 days and counting!)I’d like to embed widget in communications to certain folks who refuse to move any quicker! In a very nice way, mind you! Would [...]

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Chartpart is the Mashup of The Day on Programmable Web. (Thank you to whoever over there is noticing the tools here on leancode!)

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Chartpart got a few new features today. Chartpart more correctly handles the automatic axis labeling for horizontal charts.  Previously, the label was slapped down on the bottom axis, regardless of the data orientation which was just plain wrong. There is now an Extra Axis Label section of the form. Select which side of the chart to [...]

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Feedsparks is the Mashup of the Day today on ProgrammableWeb.

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I' m a big fan of David Allen' s Getting Things Done system. I' ve been wanting a todo application that is both simple, always at hand (which for me means iGoogle is a big plus), and which supports GTD' s system of breaking down todos into actionable categories. This is just an early proof of concept [...]

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If the Internet is overwhelming us with a flood of data, then graphical summaries of that data are one way to manage the torrent. Chartpart was created to make it easy to quickly summarize some data in a chart, and post the result as part of a blog post, wiki, or web page. Check [...]

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A few small features added to YAGCG (Yet Another Google Calendar Gadget) this morning: The on-gadget menu now has (hopefully clearer) text Back to Today simply re-loads the agenda usually for when you get lost in the past or future of that scrolling agenda. Refresh Permissions does two things: it loads up Google Calendar in a [...]

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Feedsparks has been updated to use the new Google Chart API for the sparklines it displays. If you' ve seen slow loading (or non-loading) chart images in Feedsparks, this should help improve the response time and reliability. Feedsparks is a great way to keep track of the relative popularity of blogs, not just your own.

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YAGCG got some updates today, responding to some of the feedback you' ve provided on the early version. Thank you! New features In Edit Settings , you can now add calendars in many formats: the calendar ID directly, or just paste in the XML, iCal, or HTML URL, or even the embedded javascript for the calendar. It will parse [...]

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Google announced a new charting API that is wonderfully simple to work with. Like Joe Gregorio' s sparklines service, it' s simply a URL-based interface that you can use as the source for your HTML image tags and this makes it wonderfully useful. I' ve used Joe' s service for things like Feedsparks, where these services do all [...]

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I' ve been quite frustrated that Google hasn' t produced a usable gadget for their own calendar system. I' ve tried tons of them. So, in the long tradition of naming applications that should never had to come into being but for the failings of those that came before, here is YAGCG - Yet Another Google Calendar Gadget. A [...]

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Karma Club got approved for the Facebook Application Directory around noon today .. Just a few hours after Techcrunch posted this article. Karma Club was one of those added to that Facebook bug over the weekend after being stuck in queue for a little over a week. Interesting to watch how the push from [...]

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I don' t thank my friends often enough. Ok, maybe for some of the big things, but definitely not for the little things. We all could use a bit more of the positive energy that comes from a simple thank you from people we care about. As a first facebook application, I tried [...]

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Days Until has been updated with some of the same better error handling, zebra table, and other features of yesterday' s Days Since update. Current users will automatically get the upgrade over the next few hours (as caches expire). If you see any problems, please comment here! And you can to try this tracker [...]

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Days Since has gotten a bunch of refinements fixes and features that are based on feedback from the 1300 or so people who use it regularly. If you use the main version (added from the link to the left), you' ll get these updates automatically. Thanks especially to Ping Zou, who took the [...]

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Walt and Andrei closed the second day and last formal of the conference (Saturday was more open discussion). This post is a continuation of the first day' s notes. Also note that the slides for all talks have been uploaded by Brad, and videos will appear in the future. Again, disclaimer any [...]

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Here' s some of what we were treated to on Day 2, before the conclusion of Walt' s Future of D talk, which will be another post. These are just some of my notes and thoughts. The presentation slides have been put up by Brad Roberts (who did just an awesome job organizing this first [...]

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Kris Bell - Array slicing fo shizzle! Some of us missed the pop culture reference in title, but this was a effective talk on how the array slicing feature of D is a key performance tool. Kris had struggled for several years in scaling server-side Java code. He talked through a few of these cases. [...]

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The Future of D talk by Walter Bright and Andrei Alexandrescu was spread into two parts: kicking off the first day, and closing out the second. A brilliant ploy to keep everyone at the conference in their seats through both the days. So this post is notes just from the Day 1 potion [...]

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