Posts Tagged ‘code’

Updating My Scheduler App with More CSS and JavaScript Goodness

May 1st, 2010 · View Comments · , , ,

Remember the scheduler app that I wrote? It’s a tiny web app that doesn’t do much: You add a bunch of entries to a time slot, and it randomly picks an entry from each time slot. Essentially, you use it when you’ve got a lot of choices (e.g., scheduling volunteers to work at an event), and you’d like to have a random way of picking those choices.

Regardless of how simple it is, it was a perfect candidate on which for me to practice my JavaScript and CSS skills.

How do you organize jQuery code? How do you use CSS to make an intuitive UI? Those were the kinds of questions I tried to answer when fiddling with this web app. I’ll show you what I did to make it look cool and make it work the way I want.

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Using jQuery to Make a Simple Scheduler App

March 9th, 2010 · View Comments · , , ,

Hey, check out my new app. ^_^

It’s been a while since I coded something up. I’ve been meaning to get back into doing side projects, but it’s not always easy finding free time after work.

One of my friends wanted an easier way to create schedules for employees, so I decided to give this a shot. The scheduler app is what I came up with.

It’s a super simple app written entirely in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with jQuery and jQuery UI. I’m pretty satisfied with how it turned out! I’ll walk through how I made it so you can see how simple it was to make.

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Playing with Google App Engine

February 20th, 2010 · View Comments · , , , ,

I’m playing with Google App Engine!

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Google App Engine is basically free hosting for Java and Python apps. Your app is hosted on an appspot.com subdomain, and you can pay for extra resources if your app starts to get really popular.

I’ll be using it to play around with Java web development (since my webhost doesn’t support Java). I may play around with Python eventually, but for now, I’ll be leveraging my Java experience to do my bidding.

Interested in playing with Google App Engine, too? I’ll show you my attack plan for how to get started. ^_^ (more…)

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