Challenge: Make something cool, from scratch, while on an airplane. Start when electronics are allowed and end when they’re not.
End Product
AdBlock Detection with JavaScript / jQuery Update
(Yo! This is an update to my Show a Message to AdBlock Users with jQuery / JavaScript post, which I don’t think works anymore!)
Dead Simple PHP Maintenance Lock Out
Here’s a quick and dirty way to lock people out of viewing your PHP site while you’re working on it. Put this in a base file or at the top of any page that you don’t want rendered.
[php][/php]
You can view it by appending ?maint to all the URLs, which normal visitors won’t know. Of course, you can use other attribute names or text.
Is this the most secure way to do it? Definitely not. But for most purposes, it’s totally fine.
BigImg.it
This project didn’t take off like I wanted it to and Italian domain names are expensive… So I let it die. If you have any interest in taking its reigns, contact me.
BigImg.it (pronounced “big image it”) is an image embed applet for putting big images in not-so-big spaces, like on blogs or websites with fixed widths.
Delivery
GearMunkies
There’s A Sticker On My Computer!
Courtesy of Bear Kid, who makes cool things you can buy.
Semi-Transparent Mockup Overlays with CSS / jQuery UI
I recently needed to convert some PSDs to HTML/CSS with pretty high accuracy, that is, the finished webpages needed to look very close to their original mockups. As is customary nerd style, I wrote some code to help me do that.
My Name Is Tommy
Things We Do
Things We Do is a visualized, folksonomy’d work task inventory. It allows for teams to list the things they do and see how these things interrelate, associate, and affect workload.