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Using jQuery to Make a Simple Scheduler App

March 9th, 2010 · View Comments · apps, code, javascript, jquery

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 · app engine, apps, code, google, java

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…)

Summer Updates

August 7th, 2007 · View Comments · code, site

I admit it; my site has been pretty dead for a while. I’ve been busy finishing my junior year of college, working full-time at a web development company during the summer, and completing side projects for friends and myself. Being a webmaster for each of the student organizations that I’m a part of and taking on web projects from friends, I never devote enough time to my own website. But I’ve been slowly working at it, nonetheless. Staying in Milwaukee for the summer (instead of on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where I have less-than-stellar 56K Internet access) has helped give me more chances to update the site. The changes I’ve made so far have been somewhat subtle, but here’s a summary of what I’ve been doing: (more…)