A few days ago Checkbook for webOS appeared into the webOS App Catalog.
Since then there has been over 700 downloads of the app at $1.99 each.
I've had nearly zero bug reports on it (only a few people who didn't
understand the interface on it) so I count that as a success so far. I
hope it continues to be a useful product to people and more people
download it. I still have a few features to add to it before I call it
a success though.

The problem I now have is that I have no clue what type of app to work
on next. I don't have anything I personally need (which is what drove
me to create Checkbook). Anyone have any suggestions of an app you
would like to have on your webOS device?

Just sent an updated version of Checkbook to Palm for review. Hopefully
this one passes. Apparently the last one failed due to a bug on their
side.

In other news, migraines fracking suck. I'm going to bed.

I've technically was just laid off from my job of 3ish years at
Interworks. I say technically because they hadn't had work for me for
the past month and a half. Good news is I already had a new job at KU
as a web developer. The full time guy who assigned me my latest project
seemed amazed at what I was doing with it. heh

I was also recently accepted into the Palm App Catalog. Since it is
still in beta, I only had to pay 5$ to be in the developer program
instead of 99$ for my first year. If I can get my app, Checkbook,
pushed out before the catalog leaves beta I can avoid that 50$ fee as
well. Checkbook has a Beta version over on PreCentral.net (see link in
the last sentence for the app page) as well. If you have a Palm Pre,
Palm Pixi (releasing officially on Sunday), or any future webOS device
you can try it out. It'll be 1.99$ when it hits the app catalog. That
price will only remain until I get it fully out of beta with the
primary features I want in it. Then, depending on the user base and
demand, the price may go up.

Well I need to get back to work on homework and Checkbook.

Major goodness for my webOS application, Checkbook. I've managed to
remove the majority of the loading time for the transaction page. This
doesn't really matter for anyone with little data, but for heavy users
with thousands of transactions it can reduce the load time by seconds
at least. For example, I had 15 second load time on my primary account
before modification. After it, I have a one or two second load time.

I am currently working on an app for webOS-enabled devices; right now
just the Palm Pre and the Palm Pixi. The app is called Checkbook and it
is what the name sounds like. I just got contacted by Palm earlier this
week to be in their app catalog. (Yay!) So now I am flooding my beta
testers with version updates to get it ready for a paying customer base.

http://twitpic.com/nmpo7

I carved a pumpkin and now have seeds prepping to be baked. I still
have no clue what to dress up as tomorrow though. I have three costumes
I could wear, but I'm not sure about any of them.

I am terrible at writing papers. I am even worse at writing a report on
physics experiments. It takes me forever to create something
understandable. For some strange reason though, I enjoy working on
them. I love it when my words finally make sense and explain the
concept. Today I am working on a paper about Michelson interferometry.
It is a pain to get going, partially because a program I am using to
generate graphs of my data is not cooperating, but I like it.

So a few days ago my video card went wacky. I purchased a new one from NewEgg and got it today. It is installed and functioning quite well. The card I now have uses a GeForce GTX 260. I haven't had a chance to see how it compares to my old one yet, been a bit busy with updating my application for the Palm Pre and other webOS enabled phones.

The app is called Checkbook. Here is the little blurb describing it that was sent into Palm so I hopefully can get into their app catalog.I just released version 0.7.99 today and added some new features and made it work better with Google Documents, where it can export data to right now. It can also import from there, but I need to work on that more before I am happy with it. I registered a domain name and and getting hosting soon so that I can make it a 'cloud' application. That won't appear until after it goes to the app store probably though since I am a little busy with college and work as well.

For the past while, I've been working on a application for the Palm Pre. Today, I sent Checkbook to the Palm Pre App Catalog. Here is hoping they like it. I still have a lot of do before I like it. If you are curious about my application, you can check it out here or read through its forum thread.

Yay! I feel accomplished this week. I got a prop project completed and shipped out and I've almost finished a website upgrade. Now I just need to get homework done and my Pre application code updated and I'll be just shiny :)