Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
We Hate Internet Explorer
Partly because I wanted to make something using the Twitter Search API, and partly because I wanted to do something relatively easy in PHP after spending far too long working with ASP, and because I hate Internet Explorer, I created icanhazrealbrowser.com
The site uses Twitter’s Search API to keep track of anyone ‘hating on’ Internet Explorer. [...]
G&G Motorsport Contact Form
Rick recently asked me help out with the redesign of the G&G Motorsport site. The task? An Ajax powered drop-down inline contact form available from any page. The solution? jQuery.
G&G Motorsports is an independent company specialising in the supply, fitting and calibration of engine control systems. The new site needed to serve up news, [...]
All Change at Citynoise.org
For those who are interested I’m going to start documenting the upgrades and improvements I’m making to citynoise.org over the coming months. The site has been struggling under some pretty heavy traffic and several internal optimisations including query caching for some of the more complex database operations has gone a long way towards making the [...]
jQuery Image Text Replacement: Work In Progress
The JavaScript text replacement on this site is a jQuery Plugin i’ve written as an adaptation of the techniques detailed in Dynamic Text Replacement by Stewart Rosenberger in A List Apart Issue 183. The current source of the plugin can be found here. I’m calling it jitr, and you can’t stop me.
Currently it’s a work [...]
Safari Text Replacement Bug
Credit goes to my homeslice Rick Nunn this afternoon for discovering a fairly major bug in the new JavaScript text replacement I’ve recently developed and implemented on this site.
Of course, had I bothered to test it at all using Safari I might have noticed it myself. But that’s not the point. So, thanks Rickzor.
So, [...]
