Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

The Story So Far... I've been working from home for a startup company (actually two different companies) for the last 2 years. It's been awesome. I've been able to balance work and family (specifically my nearly 3 year-old daughter) with a zero commute lifestyle--a 40 hour work week is exactly 40 hours. I've done some [...]

Monday, March 14th, 2011 at 23:47 | 1 comment
Categories: Jobs, News, Web Development

Don't ask me why, but I needed a way to explode some stars in a fancy animation on a page. At first I found Fireworks.js, which was kinda cool at first--but I quickly realized a few things: 1. It's using raw javascript, which is a pity if you are already loading the power of jquery [...]

Saturday, January 29th, 2011 at 16:05 | 0 comments

I'm working on a project that required some apparently previously unexpected UI controls. One of them, I decided should be made into a jQuery plugin and get some feedback from the community. I call it jquery.codeassist. OK... so what the hell does it do? The plugin creates a code assist menu within textarea and input [...]

Friday, October 22nd, 2010 at 11:54 | 4 comments