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Embed this puzzle, please!

Colleen — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:26:21 +0000

I blogged about these jQuery puzzles last spring when I made them but I didn’t make it obvious that you are welcome to embed them in your website FREE. The height can be less if you prefer, but should be at least 500 or the scrolling will make it quite annoying. Include this code . . . → Read More: Embed this puzzle, please!

Disable Akismet = spike in visits

Colleen — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:29:00 +0000

I recently migrated all my blogs to WordPress 3.0. One of the things you do is temporarily disable all plugins including Akismet spam filter. During the short period of time the spam filter was off I received, and had to later kill, more spam than I would normally receive in a week. And don’t get . . . → Read More: Disable Akismet = spike in visits

jQuery jigsaw

Colleen — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:30:39 +0000

The first time I googled “jquery jigsaw” I didn’t find too much. I found http://www.vladstudio.com/jigsawpuzzles/ and Fernando’s very simple one What I was wanting to do was bring some of my old Hypercard stacks from the 90′s back to life. Yeah, Hypercard had drag and drop way back then. Anyway, after some rather painful massaging . . . → Read More: jQuery jigsaw

Working Turing Machine

Colleen — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:36:00 +0000

This is just too cool, and true geeks will instantly get why.

PHP Elephant Plarn Geek Backpack

Colleen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:56:27 +0000

Here is my latest geeky plarn project. It’s been a long time in the making. I’m very proud of how long it took me to get enough bags to do this project, and I have to say I didn’t even get all of them myself. I fashioned the bag as a backpack rather than . . . → Read More: PHP Elephant Plarn Geek Backpack

Lingering reservations about ORM

Colleen — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:49:14 +0000

I have always had reservations about locking myself into a strict Object Relational Model scheme for the same reason I have been allergic to Windows. I was never able to articulate exactly why but my friend Juozas Kaziukėnas has brought it into sharp focus in his latest blog post on Doctrine.

Here’s the deal: . . . → Read More: Lingering reservations about ORM

Twitter list apps

Colleen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:03:00 +0000

They couldn’t be too long in coming! The best thing about Twitter is its API. I was told by someone in the know that 90% of Twitter’s traffic comes through its API, not through people directly surfing it. Anyway, the new lists are GREAT. They should have been there from the get-go but oh well. . . . → Read More: Twitter list apps

Twibbons for Toonlet

Colleen — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:54:36 +0000

Here’s a little Twitter app for you while we all wait for some serious list apps: This one is called twibbon, and what it does is overlays a little icon over your twitter avatar to show you support something. First I placed the zend framework one, then I created my own for toonlet, of . . . → Read More: Twibbons for Toonlet

Toonlet with Audio

Colleen — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:15:06 +0000

I just clipped each individual frame of one of my toonlets and put them in an open office presentation. Then I fired up Berio and ran the slideshow fullscreen while I read the lines. Then I imported the whole thing into IMovie, clipped the beginning and end, compressed it a little and uploaded it . . . → Read More: Toonlet with Audio

Scary Facebook Hackage

Colleen — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:34:04 +0000

Paul Fenwick graced us with the following presentation at Barcamp Melbourne. Armed with only the documentation from Facebook’s API he proceded to submit queries to their query engine and it is amazing what he dug up on the volunteers who agreed to let him “hack” their accounts.

Bottom line: Facebook apps are scary because they . . . → Read More: Scary Facebook Hackage