Archive for May, 2008

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I got hired based on this…

Ok, so… I got a little bored and figured I do some Google searching for fun. My idea of fun is rapidly declining, apparently. Anyway, I Googled my wife’s maiden name… and only one website came up. Only one… and it was a site that I made… in like 1998. Seriously. Wow.

For those of you who believe there is no God, here is proof positive. I got a seriously high paying contract position, my very first “real” job, based on this horrifying, yet hilarious website. Most of the links still work! I might have even used a Blink tag or two! I dunno. O_o… any link with a file for download is now broken, but wow… Check out that amazing animation. HA!!! Wow… just… wow. To think I actually grew into a legitimate web professional out of that! Unbelievable.

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Friday, May 16th, 2008

Satellites and Tracking Shipments

Does anyone know if this yet exists to consumers? I think a shipping company like FeEx, UPS, or DHL would have this ability on their websites… basically watching exactly where the truck with your shipment on it is so you can know about when it will arrive.  I don’t know… I’m not a political or economic commentator. I could go off on ramifications that would ensue if this were available…

But I won’t. I just want to be able to see where the truck is… right… NOW!

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Monday, May 5th, 2008

Overlay-Style Form Summary

Ok, it’s time for a very geek post about a particular aspect of web-usability: Form Submission Summary.

Before I get into it, here’s a brief rundown of what it is and a link to the demo, in case you don’t want to read the post and just want to get the goods… which is what I would do if I were in your shoes:

  1. It’s a form with some cool Prototype functions that actually overlays a summary of the form information in a “light-window” without actually submitting the information. I used PHP, but you can use any programming language.
  2. It’s cross-browser compatible with IE6, IE7, Opera 9, Safari 1, and Firefox 2… maybe more, I didn’t test other browsers.
  3. I didn’t do much styling. You can do that stuff yourself if you want to.
  4. The Demo for the Summary Window can be found here.
  5. The source code and images (there are only 3 images) can be found here (35kb zip file).

Now it’s time to get into why it exists… (more…)

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