Some of you might recall my last open source project – SlickQuiz. Well, I’m at it again. I’ve recently released my second open source project – grandomizr, through my company Quicken Loans. Quicken Loans launched an open source initiative just a few months ago which has been steadily picking up steam. I get bragging...
Hey all! A few months ago, you might remember that I released my SlickQuiz jQuery plugin into the wild – and so far, I’d say it’s been pretty successful! It’s had several pull requests on github, tons of great feature requests, and it even helped spur the open source movement at my company, Quicken...
Julie’s Vegas Flickr Set Vegas. What else needs to be said? It’s been a few weeks since I returned and life is finally starting to get back to normal (ish). Future Insights Live was an amazing conference – there were great talks, great people, great insight, great parties ;), and, of course, great Vegas....
Sweet!! I just released my very first jQuery plugin on github – SlickQuiz! SlickQuiz, simply put, is: A jQuery plugin for creating pretty, dynamic quizzes. I’ll let the demo speak for itself – check it out below!! Check out the github page for all the technical details! Update 6/21/12: We now have a SlickQuiz...
It’s been one week since CodeMash 2011 ended and I have to say that I’m still feeling a bit of a geek high from the experience of it all. This years CodeMash was my first developer conference ever, so it was pretty interesting to see the whole dev-geek community come together in all of...
Yay! I’ve made the Mephisto-WordPress conversion and now have one less mongrel process eating up resources on my slice :) Lovely theme, eh? It’s called Color Paper and it’s FREE from Smashing Magazine. That is all for now… stay tuned – cool things should start to happen soonish ;)
Earlier today I wrote an article for the MetaSpring blog called ‘5 Ways Your Business Can Embrace Micro-blogging’. In it, I discuss the micro-blogging trend and a few different ways that businesses can take advantage of it. Check it out and let us know how you’ve seen micro-blogging used in the business world.
Well… after several months of not being able to blog due to random Typo errors, I’ve finally made a transition to Mephisto CMS. It was a surprisingly smooth conversion once I found the proper combination of script hacks. There are still a few problems though, unfortunately. Mainly, that pagination seems to have “disappearred” with...
Recent government action has dramatically increased (300-1200%) the fees internet radio companies must pay to play the music you enjoy. This means that sites like Pandora and Last.fm, as well as many other online radio stations, could be shut down due to bankruptcy. You can help, let your voice be heard. Visit SaveNetRadio.org to...
About a month ago I conducted a couple informational interviews for my Job Search Strategies class. The first interview was with Robert Dempsey, Project Director of Atlantic Dominion Solutions a Ruby on Rails website and application development firm, and Founder and Director of Rails For All a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of...
Well, I’m really not sure why I didn’t do this a month ago, or why it took me this long to think of it, but my new portfolio site is up at JulieMarie.net. I built the site with Radiant, a simple, Ruby on Rails based content management system and designed the layout myself. Check...
follow jewlofthelotus at http://twitter.com Well, since I don’t really have a lot of time to write more than one blog post per month, I figured I’d link you all to my Twitter page where I have the chance to post once or twice a day. You can find me at twitter.com/jewlofthelotus. Add me if...
Post-graduate plans are something that I’ve been thinking about rather frequently since the beginning of the new year. To really see where I’m coming from, I guess I should tell you how I got to where I am now…
Check it out, kids: ExpressiveConnections.com has finally been announced. Expressive Connections is a network for creative professionals – aimed at aspiring and accomplished writers and artists who are looking to begin or advance in a career utilizing their talent. The site is in a sort of alpha-mode right now. We think it’s got a...
Sigh. Wow. I’ve just successfully created a Ruby on Rails forum for the site that you’ve all been eagerly awaiting (don’t worry, it’ll be public soon – just a few more weeks!). It’s pretty simple thus far. I spent the last two days just working on basic functionality. Nothing fancy…yet. ;) This forum is...
Well, we’ve made it to Week 12/16 of the Fall semester here at MSU. And that means, that the fifth and final IDM is due in my Interactive Media I course. This weeks featured site is Blogs For Learning, an instructional blog for students and teachers that provides, “information and resources about the technical...
Just as we thought we’d actually have to tune in live to Comedy Central to see our favorite shows (ie. The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Southpark), Comedy Central and YouTube are now in talks to keep the copyrighted videos on the site. A lot of CC clips have been reposted so go...
Here’s a few things that I think are worth mentioning but don’t necessarily need their own posts. First, you know ads are going to reach the News Feed of Facebook users any-day now, when you see flyers all over your campus asking students to join the Crest WhiteStrips Facebook group. Here’s a link to...
You should have seen this one coming – it’s the fourth of five IDM(Inspiration Design Model) posts for my “Interactive Media I”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/ course! This week on the class chopping block: “Rustboy”:http://www.rustboy.com/, a Flash site for the Brian Taylor short film project.
So for the last week and a half, I’ve been building a Rails application for my HTML course – Interactive Media I. The “Final Project”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/?page_id=3 for my class is to create a “significant” website by manually coding HTML and CSS, in a small group. Well, we are definitely shooting for “significant.” I’m not going...
Here it is, the third of five IDM(Inspiration Design Model) posts for my “Interactive Media I”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/ class. This weeks website is “Jason Santa Maria”:http://www.jasonsantamaria.com, a personal weblog/portfolio for a graphic designer in Philly. UPDATE: Jason has “commented”:http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/archive/2006/10/10/class_critique.php on the collection of critiques by our class and I urge you all to read his response....
It’s been a few weeks since Facebook first started making _tsunamis_ in the sea of social networking sites. We’ve seen the “emergence of the News Feed”:http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2207967130 (and the massive “backlash”:http://www.somewhatfrank.com/2006/09/facebook_redesi.html that followed), the “implementation of an open admissions”:http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2210227130 policy (not so huge, but still a major area of debate – check out the comments...
Well, here is the second of five IDM(Inspiration Design Model) posts for my “Interactive Media I”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/ class. I liked this website a lot less than the first one: “smallTransport”:http://jewlofthelotus.com/articles/2006/09/07/smalltransport-idm, but I didn’t really like that one much either…
Whoa, this Writely thing is pretty sweet! As long as you have an Internet connection, there is no need to buy Word ever again!! Here is a good article that got dugg a couple weeks back: Google’s Writely If your regularly working with text documents this could be a handy tool to access your...
About a week ago, I posted an “entry”:http://jewlofthelotus.com/articles/2006/09/07/smalltransport-idm about a website for my Interactive Media I class. Well, this entry is _not_ for that class, but it is for another class of mine – Social, Cultural and Psychological Implications of Computer-Mediated Communication (more easily referred to as “TC491″:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc491/). Recently, we’ve been discussing online identity...
Thankfully, after three days of steady complaint, Facebook has done _something_ about the “News Feed” to calm our vexations. Early this morning, Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, posted to the Facebook blog (which was also simultaneously glued to the top of everyone’s “News Feed” – BUT with a nice little option to ‘Hide’)...
WTF is an IDM? It’s an “Inspiration Design Model” and I get to critique five of them over the next 13 weeks for my “Interactive Media I”:http://class.cas.msu.edu/tc346/ class. The professor assigns a website for us to look at and analyze, we each comment with a blog post and reply to at least one of...
So Thread got to this before I could: “Wow…WTF Facebook?!”:http://threadbox.net/articles/2006/09/05/wow-wtf-facebook
So, I’ve joined a LiveJournal Group called “Snapshot Seekers”:http://community.livejournal.com/snapshot_seeker/profile. It’s a group for people who just like to take pictures, professionally or not. Well as part of their application process, I have to promote the group in two locations. This is one of them. :) !http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v652/beckigurl7/Snapshot%20Seekers/scavengerhunt.jpg!:http://community.livejournal.com/snapshot_seeker/ Check it out, my application will be up...