http://www.textreminders.net/reminder-blog a development blog for text message reminders Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:07:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've always loved ajax forms that auto-complete as you type in them. Today I added that functionality to the members search bar. Hopefully this will make locating friends faster. Enjoy http://www.textreminders.net/reminder-blog/auto-complete/ I've been working with the Google Maps API to add mapping functionality to the event location. So whenever a new event is created, a map will appear on the event page with a map to the location. I never worked with an API before, so I didn't know what to ... http://www.textreminders.net/reminder-blog/maps-of-event-locations/ Sorry for lack of recent posts to the development blog. Things have been kind of crazy with the holidays, and I've started blogging again on my personal blog as well. Actually, the true reason I haven't blogged lately is because I've been programming less and marketing more. I've gotten to ... http://www.textreminders.net/reminder-blog/suppression-list/ The New Year is once again upon us, and it's time to start planning out the best way to make the most of the holiday. From Parties to Resolutions, here are the 10 Tips you'll want to keep in mind... 10. Take Pictures - Everyone has a camera, be it ... http://www.textreminders.net/reminder-blog/10-essential-tips-for-the-new-year/ so after 2 long days of programming, I've introduced some new functionality to the song in the form of "events". In your navigational bar, you should now see a new icon of a little calendar. Let me explain the functionality through an example... Let's say that I'm hosting a new years ... http://www.textreminders.net/reminder-blog/events/ It's sad how parents go overboard when their kids are involved in sports. Here's a collection of videos of soccer/hockey moms acting crazy on the sidelines. Stumble It! http://www.textreminders.net/reminder-blog/the-10-angriest-sports-moms-of-all-time-caught-on-video/ Chris Wick was kind enough to let me know of some small bugs that he came across on textReminders this week. Amoung those he found was an incorrect date when editing a reminder, profile image overlap and the inability to add non-member friends to a contact list. So I fixed ... http://www.textreminders.net/reminder-blog/working-through-some-feedback/ Tonight I believe that textReminders.net made a leap towards being one of the top web sites in it's category. Thanks to a completely open night, I was able to spend a good 7 hours on the site. I focused on the usability and look of the reminders area, and I'm ... http://www.textreminders.net/reminder-blog/best-of-breed/ This past weekend I spend some time improving the homepages look and feel. I moved the members login to the top of the page and added the registration form to the pages center. I'm hoping that this layout will improve the registration rate. My next task is to redo "create reminders" ... http://www.textreminders.net/reminder-blog/new-homepage-look/ Well, I've noticed that since we've upgraded our server I haven't received my texts on time. I figure this is because our new server is not located on the EST. I logged into my control panel tonight and noticed a setting for timezone. I set it to EST, and am ... http://www.textreminders.net/reminder-blog/timezone-change/