Back at it again. I’ve been building, creating, trying and writing; and it’s time to share a bit of what I’ve learned.
Future Blog Posts
oAuth
I started to read about the process of using oAuth to authenticate with Twitter. There are several libraries out there already written, but I wanted to try to write my own. So, I developed what I am calling twitAuth in php and used it to create the site talkietweets.com (Re-design and expansions in the works). I’m working on a several part write up on how to create your own.
jQuery 1.4
The biggest and fastest version of jQuery has just been released and I’ve had a bit of time to play with it. So, given that I’m teaching a course on Javascript and jQuery at work it’s time to return to my favorite library and perhaps finish some plugins.
Raphael
After reading a bit about Google’s Closure library i ran into an article on why Closure is terrible. That lead me to the library Raphael and particularly the tiger drawing in the demos. I decided to combine Raphael and jQuery to create art tools and I’m currently working on a pen tool much like you would find in PhotoShop.
Site Stuff
Even though I still like my site, a few pages could definitely use some work. The about us, contact and portfolio pages to be exact. When I first created the portfolio page I made the images huge to compinsate for lack of sites. Having launched 24 sites with FIRSTROI its time to dial it back a bit and re-think some things.
Good things to come and hopefully more frequent posts. Hopefully.