• Building the Zoetrope ›

  September 28, 2011

  Building a Zoetrope using web technologies was an idea that had been festering for many months. It wasn’t until I saw Google’s tribute to Jim Hensen that I actually decided to sit down and do it. The implimentation turned out to be relatively simple and allowe... (read more…)

• Making It Rain ›

  February 14, 2011

  If you haven’t already seen my CSS/HTML Rain experiment I highly suggest you check it out before reading more. Or if you’re stuck using an older browser, you can just watch the video below. Basically I built a rain simulation using only HTML, CSS and Javascrip... (read more…)

• Function.prototype.bind ›

  February 02, 2011

  In my day job I spend all of my time rolling around in the warmth of Mootools. But lately I’ve been feeling kinda weird. With all of the things Mootools provides, I began feeling sort of disconnected from the vanilla javascript community. The line between what was n... (read more…)

• How I Learned to Walk ›

  October 21, 2010

  Over the last couple weeks in my spare time, I decided to seriously mess around with CSS3. In particular webkit animations and transformations. Go to the experiment! Idea(s) and Inspiration: The walking experiment came from the need to work on something other than javasc... (read more…)

• Look Ma', No Rails! ›

  August 27, 2010

  I used to be in love with Rails. Coming from PHP, Rails made it so incredibly easy to layout, build and eventually extend websites. But there were also lots of things that made me really uneasy about Rails. Things like: Newer versions breaking my website when my host up... (read more…)

• The State of Things ›

  August 10, 2010

  In re-implementing my website I had several moments of, “My god, this code is awful!” or “I used to be proud of this?!”, and quickly came to the conclusion that I should either: rewrite the program from scratch or… completely remove it and... (read more…)

• The Sudoku Solver ›

  June 28, 2010

  After a bad run of making mistakes while marking up sudokus I thought I would try my hand at creating something to do the marking up for me. But as it turns out, I ended up writing something that would not only mark up the puzzles, but would more often than not entirely s... (read more…)

• Implementing Fractals ›

  May 17, 2010

  This experiment is something I had been thinking about for quite some time, but it was only recently that I decided to finally dive in and try implementing it. One the the biggest things encountered with this was trying to make the fractals responsive but still detailed. ... (read more…)