Jack's Blog

I’ve been stuck back at home in Leeds with very little to do, so I’ve redone the place. Feedback would be appreciated.

Just found this Facebook App called RSS Graffiti, and apart from being a little plug, I also want to know if it works. Feel free to fill in your own random blog post here.

The tumblr blog for doit is now live. As doit becomes updated, I’ll update the blog with instructions on how to use each new method.

In school, we’re doing this EPQ thing which is basically an excuse for me to write JavaScript again. Here’s what I did:

Graphit, the graphing jQuery plugin.

What you’re seeing there is a scatter graph composed entirely from JavaScript, using a perfectly well formated, ordinary table element as the input. Basically, it turns any table in to a graph automatically, and scales it appropriately. If you click the link that says “Click This”, you can see what the graph looks like as a bar chart – the option is set when you call the function, so that link basically just redraws the graph. The load time is insignificant.

I’ve just launched a tumblr blog called BYOP, which stands for Bring Your Own Paste. I’m going to regularly update it with wallpapers I find, and within a few months it will hopefully be a neat little wallpaper repository for me to use and maybe also for you to use. At the moment, the url is http://byop.tumblr.com/, but that will be changing soon to a subdomain on my site.

For those of you following the Engineer Update (and for me to use later) :

javascript:
var anch = document.getElementsByTagName('a'),
body = document.getElementsByTagName('body'),
a = 0;
body.innerHTML = '<table border=1>';
body.innerHTML += '<tr><td style="padding: 1em;">What It Looks Like:</td><td style="padding: 1em;">Where It Goes:</td></tr>';
for(a = 0; a < anch.length; a++){
body.innerHTML += '<tr><td style="padding: 1em;">' + anch[a].innerHTML + '</td><td style="padding: 1em;"><a href="' + anch[a].getAttribute('href') + '">' + anch[a].getAttribute('href') + '</a></td></tr>';
}
body.innerHTML += '</table>';


If you go to adobe’s website for CS5, and hover over the DreamWeaver section, you’ll see the flower expand, revealing browser logos on the petals. You’ll see Internet Explorer’s logo, FireFox’s logo and Chrome’s logo, but mysteriously missing are Safari (Apple’s native browser) and Opera’s (another vocal advocate of web standards) respective logos.

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