Well, I knew it was going to happen, but Google finally released their own ‘official’ version of the Desktop Calendar plugin with the features I’d added, thus making my version obsolete and destined to fall slowly in Gadget ranking. They based their new version off my code but have also edited it to their own desires (Eg They removed the ability for a user to set their own update time, guess their servers are copping enough of a pounding). So this means I’m going to have to do something else as a drawcard for advertising as I’m still a little way off Adsense’s minimum payout level of $100.
The upside? Well, at least there’s a Google product out there with my name in the code. The other upside? Well, not really an upside, but still funny, is that Google have now inherited at least 1 bug that I’d noticed in my code. Apparently they didn’t pick it up when copying and pasting 🙂
OK that was mean, they haven’t really copied and pasted (They removed all my comments), and they did add a few other tasty features that I hadn’t got around to or wasn’t sure how to do.