A few days ago, I learned about a map visualization libary called Polymaps from FlowingData (Design advanced online and interactive maps with Polymaps). This weekend, I resolved to play with it and come up with something useful. The Texas Tribune has a neat Flash based map of county-by-county election turnouts. My goal for this weekend……
Read More Weekend HackWhat’s this? Another release already? Well yes. I’ve been working on this project, and we use Codebase for project management. And the whole time, I kept thinking, “Why can’t I sort these tickets?!”. Apparently, I’m not the only one, because I overheard some other people say the same thing so I decided to make a…
Read More CodebaseHQ Tickets+ for FireFoxI actually made this site a few months ago. I just forgot to announce it. No, I lied. I actually made this in 2007, but back then it was a Konfabulator widget. LazyAlarm is a simple alarm/timer/countdown site. You just type when you want an alarm and it does it. You can add messages, make…
Read More Made another site: lazyalarm.comIf you’re running a simple site, you may find that using even one sub-directory is overkill. You have one CSS, one JS, and one HTML for the entire site, and name them after your project. If you’re like me, and end up working on multiple sites at a time, it helps if the file names…
Read More A simple htaccess line for micrositesI took a few hours today to make a tool to help me convert CSS snippets betwen single-line and multi-line. lazyCSS.com Right now it’s just a bare-bones site but I hope to flesh it out within the next week… month… year? One neat little feature I threw in there for this “alpha” version is that…
Read More Announcing lazyCSS.comSo I’ve been playing this game called BattleForge, and there are a handful of websites that exist just to display information about these cards you can collect in the game (think Magic: The Gathering or Pokemon). People have also made Adobe AIR applications and Microsoft Access databases. So, naturally I thought I would pollute the…
Read More Announcing allbfcards.comI finally got around to updating my canvas / sql visualization code. Interacting with the map is now much easier. And I’ve posted a live demo of it here: http://crccheck.com/demo02 It’s not as refined as google maps, but it’s still pretty fancy. Navigation is done in the minimap, and you can draw on the large…
Read More A new canvas demoA couple days ago, I tried cloning my Windows Vista drive in preparation for upgrading to Windows 7. Something went wrong though, and my original drive wouldn’t boot anymore because of the infamous winload.exe. So I got rushed into upgrading to Windows 7 earlier and unprepared. But luckily, to a large degree I was prepared:…
Read More How I survived a fresh Windows 7 install