Code and Whatnot

Back in November, Family Travel relaunched with a ton of new content, a completely new look & feel, and great Google Maps integration.
I’m the dummy who told the client that animated markers and infoboxes would be OK, and I’m the dummy who had to code it (the javascript) in under two months, by myself. […]

HUGE was kind enough to send me to the Rich Web Experience conference in San Jose earlier this month. Overall, I give the conference high marks. It’s a pricey conference, but they included three meals a day (which weren’t bad) and the conference was a 12+ hour experience on each of the first […]

My buddy Southard and I are working on a little side-project: developing web services for an electronics wholesaler. They’re not paying us in any direct way, but we’ll be the first to launch a storefront that runs directly from the web services, and we might resell our own solution as a turnkey product.
At the […]

WooHoo!. If only it was driving traffic to this blog…
Download here.

UPDATE: I am now hosting the source code for this project on this blog.
Today OnForce was kind enough to release the server monitor tools I created in April and May. The newly LGPL-ed code is available for download, with basic README documentation included with the source. We haven’t exposed the subversion repository yet, […]

For me, on Mozilla, the current incarnation of Y!MB is working a lot faster than the first incarnation. I originally tried Beta for about an hour and decided it was just too slow to use. Now, I think I like it more than the old Yahoo! Mail. The only problem I currently […]

UPDATE: This software has been released.
COMET
My boss wanted to watch the Apache access logs from a web page. And top, and mytop. My first solution, which worked (and still works) great, was using a simple COMET stream for each feed. Keeping a process open in php means waiting for output, so I […]

I’m working on a project that’s requiring me to learn a little AJAX. I decided early on to use the Prototype JavaScript framework. It adds a number of things that really should be in JavaScript to begin with, and a few others that it could really use (another post?). It also speeds […]