Archive for the 'Web Dev' Category


Even Easier jQuery Rollovers

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
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Here’s a followup to my first jQuery tutorial posted back in September 2007. To date, that article has been viewed 3,000 times, so I’m thrilled some people have gotten some good out of it.
Since then, I’ve honed the script even more, and wanted to share some of the improvements.

CSS3 Presentation Video

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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Here is a fully-edited video of my presentation entitled “The Future Today: CSS3 and JavaScript”, which I gave June 3rd at the Spring Break conference at Ohio University. My hope was to put this on a hosted service to absorb some bandwidth. But the Google video uploader is kind of janky and Vimeo won’t allow [...]

Back From Spring Break

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
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Well, sorta back; I’m waiting for my flight back to Atlanta at the Akron/Canton airport. Overall, I think this year’s Spring Break conference went well, at least what bits of it I had time to see. The first night, there was a speaker’s dinner at a swanky restaurant within Baker Center at Ohio University called [...]

ClipRunner Launches

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
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Finally launched a very basic web app I’ve been piddling around with for a while. It’s called ClipRunner, and it’s only purpose is to help get bits of text from one computer to another.
I built this mainly for my own needs. Seemed like every time I turned around, I needed to get a little [...]

Get Your Puppet On

Monday, November 12th, 2007
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I’m happy to announce that I’m now on board the web development team for the video podcast called ‘dotBoom‘. I’ll be doing the PHP and Ajax work for the new site to be designed for season two. Or rather, Season 2.0.
dotBoom is a show about frustrated web designers, all done with puppets. Excuse me, people [...]

Easy, Reusable Image Rollovers with jQuery

Thursday, September 27th, 2007
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Okay, so this is my first jQuery tutorial (or any tutorial for that matter). So here goes…
In my own experience, image rollovers for navigation is a pretty repetitive task. Almost every site I build has them. For the longest time, I simply used the javascript spit out by Dreamweaver. Sure it worked, but it required [...]