If you are in Sydney, don’t miss Code wars tonight – which should be really fun.

I never really mentioned it either, but I’ll be talking about iPhone Web Application development, and I’ll be hanging out talking about iPhone native app development at a birds of a feather chat if you are into iPhone stuff.

I am not sure if WebDU is sold out yet, but you might be able to score a last minute ticket…

Own it today!

Min’s descriptions on these videos are the bees knees.

Register now – I highly doubt you’ll be sad you did.

WebDU Registration twitter.com/webdu

You most likely don’t want to miss it.

WebDU Registration twitter.com/webdu

The main problem with using it in the browser is I can’t Command+tab to the application to jot down or check off items. I also frequently Command+h (hide) applications, and if it’s in the browser all browser instances hide.

As a quick and dirty fix, I put this lite application together that will give you a GlueyNotes instance on your desktop that you can use as a regular application. It is basically just a web kit wrapper application, but it does the job well enough.

It’s lite because there are some real APIs and web services in place for GlueyNotes (and for the most part working), but I haven’t had time to write a real application that use the APIs – this quick hack works well in the meantime though.

It looks like this:

If you’re using GlueyNotes on Mac, you can download the application here (I’ll slap together a windows and / or linux version if someone wants it).

I just put up a new version of GlueyNotes, there are quite a few under-the-hood changes, but not many client visible changes.

One new visible feature (that is often requested) is you can now be logged into several devices at the same time. Before you were limited to one device due to possible edit conflicts. However, now there is a conflict checker, and I boosted the number of logins to 4. This should also limit the number of times you have to login, as you wont get logged out when switching devices.

Another visible change is basic help – another oft requested feature. The help documentation is somewhat nasty looking at present, but I will be updating it soon (I am using it as the main testing ground for WebArchive Extractor).

I also put a forum together for the application – it is currently quite bare, but if you have questions, comments, or suggestions you want to get in the queue you can post them there.

It looks at your browsers preferred language and if it’s Chinese (zh_CN) displays the UI in Chinese. So if you want to see the Chinese site, you have to set your preferred language in the browser. If you’re just curious as to what it looks like, here is a screen shot:

There are not many people that use GlueyNotes in China, but there are a few actually.

I also added support for the Android platform. I am not sure if there are any Android phones in the wild yet, but it seems to somewhat work with the emulator. Since the browser is based on WebKit I am not all that surprised, but it’s kind of neat that it works almost out of the box (if you have an iphone web application you might want to check out Android too).

Consider Android support beta though. Android seems to have problems with a few ajax calls, and text area entry oddities; however, the bugs could be due to the emulator.

Most people know that if you do a bit of advertising, you’ll get more people checking out your service, product, or whatever. However, I’ve never really seen a concrete example – a real world example – until this weekend.

A while ago I submitted my GlueyNotes application to Apple for display on their listing of iPhone applications. Look at this image and try to guess the day it went live:

The page views went from about 100 a day to over 3,000 – that is amazing to me. Now granted it was / is on the “front page” of the listing so the numbers will likely drop, but this is an amazing example of what a bit of marketing can do.

If you’re curious, you can see the listing here. (Ignore the company item that was a type-o or something (as evident by the link coming back to this site))

Unbeknownst to me, the number of users grew on GlueyNotes by leaps and bounds this weekend. Looks like I need to step up GlueyNotes development…

Changes:

• GlueyNotes should now work with the iPod Touch.
• Better browser support for non iPhone usage – IE6/7, Safari 2, and Firefox. It only worked “right” on Safari 3, and didn’t work at all on any IE.
• Better layout for the simple online list editor. The editor was kind of hard to use from the iPhone UI, and it didn’t layout very well on the desktop either. The new one just takes up the whole screen without any UI fluff.

There is still a lot more to come. My wife now depends on the application, and she has given me a list of things to do ;)

You can checkout Glueynotes here