# Funcaday.com Dashboard Widget


By Ben Ramsey

Published on December 11, 2007


**[» Download the Widget Now!](http://web.archive.org/web/20101212040009/http://benramsey.com/media/downloads/widgets/funcaday/Funcaday-latest.wdgt.zip)**

**NEW RELEASE!** _I've released [version 1.1](http://web.archive.org/web/20101212040025/http://benramsey.com/media/downloads/widgets/funcaday/Funcaday-1.1.wdgt.zip) of the funcaday.com dashboard widget. This release provides for better interoperability with Paul's service and uses his new JSON interface instead of the RSS feed._

Last night, I was vigorously attacked by a virus of some sort. My body ached, I tossed and turned all night, and I got no sleep. It was not fun. This morning, taking a sick day and feeling much better with the help of meds, I decided to do something I haven't had the luxury of doing for a while: catch up on blog posts.

While reading through news and blog entries, I came across [a post on Zend's Developer Zone](http://devzone.zend.com/1121/paul-reinheimers-function-a-day-calendar-now-live/) about [Paul Reinheimer's](http://blog.preinheimer.com/) new [PHP Function a Day](http://funcaday.com/) website. The Function a Day site _functions_ in much the same way as those nifty tear-off-a-page-per-day desktop calendars we all buy for those on our Christmas shopping lists for whom we can't quite figure out what to get. The calendars are hit-or-miss. [The Far Side](http://www.thefarside.com/) is always a popular favorite; Inspirational Stories of Left-Handed Leaders not so much.

Paul's Function a Day, however, is a hit with but one problem: I have to visit the site everyday to see the newest calendar entry. Ick! If I know me---and I hope I know me---then I know I'll forget to visit the site. Thus, in my sicken and medicated stupor, I decided to do the only logical thing one would do while taking a sick day: write some code!

Thus was born the [PHP Function a Day Dashboard Widget](http://web.archive.org/web/20101212040009/http://benramsey.com/media/downloads/widgets/funcaday/Funcaday-latest.wdgt.zip) for Mac OS X. Now, you can have the Function a Day delivered right to your desktop just like that day-to-day calendar, except this time, you don't have to remember to tear off the page each day. Enjoy!