One day in November of '07, I decided to teach myself how to write applications for Windows. To learn how to code, I needed to start coding. But what kind of program should I write? I recalled how difficult it was for my mother, when she was in her 80s, to remember to take her medications. It was impossible for her to keep track of what she had taken and when she had taken it. So that was the inspiration for my first program: a medical reminder program. I called it RxReminder. But during the almost-two-years I worked on it, someone else trademarked the name RxReminder. By then I had a lot of files that started with the letters "rxr", so I changed the name to Reminder XR™ (same initials). Along the way I also decided to write a medical reminder program in Javascript so it could run inside a web browser. It wasn't just a "lite" version of Reminder XR, it was an "ultra-lite" version. So I called it UltraLite™.
I learned a ton about how to write Windows programs. I created a website to offer my program to the public. The website is was "www.FreeMedicalReminder.com".
