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Born to live in a hedge

An unbelievable milestone!

Wednesday, 21. November 2007, 18:23:21

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Just a minute ago, while checking my widgets for new comments, I was shocked to realised that touchtheSky has (sometime recently) hit one million downloads.

That's a big number. In fact, that's just plain ridiculous - but I love it!

Thanks to everyone who's supported and motivated me - I've learned a lot of good stuff, and developed a lot of useful tools for myself in the process. The comments and good wishes I get in the comment threads are overwhelming.

Currently, I'm recording about 12,000 visits per day from the widget checking home for updates - so that's probably roughly the number of people using it on a daily basis. That's phenomenal, and it's even more amazing that my little ADSL-connected server is still standing. Huzzah for asynchronous requests!

Thanks to every one of you - and I hope I can use what I've learned to make more and better things!

Repton gets new friendsA little grassroots support...

Comments

Tamil 22. November 2007, 15:18

:hat:

Maulkin 22. November 2007, 16:56

Congratulation!

Hope to see more of your widgets soon :D

FataL 26. November 2007, 18:50

:up:

That's phenomenal, and it's even more amazing that my little ADSL-connected server is still standing.

Sometimes I got "could not connect to server" alert. :wink:

Lawrence Eng 26. November 2007, 21:08

Congrats! I have touchtheSky running right now :smile:

Manuel Dussán 20. May 2009, 21:43

Hey I'd like to do a widget similar to Viking Reminder, but i could't do it in Widgetize. Do I need a special program, is it hard????

johnnysaucepn 20. May 2009, 22:02

Widgetize only works in turning newsfeeds into widgets. To do anything more complicated, you need to be familiar with writing web pages, and specifically writing Javascript. If you are, then dev.opera.com should have all the information you need!

Manuel Dussán 21. May 2009, 00:51

ok thank u

Nick 6. October 2009, 03:42

Excellent work on touchthesky, JSP. :cheers:

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