Tag: MasterWish

  • MasterWish WordPress Plugin v1.5 Released!

    MasterWish is happy to announce that there is a new version of the MasterWish WordPress Plugin available for download! Get it here. Bug Fixes: Images now display in lists Currency symbols now match what the list owner chooses in MasterWish New Features/General Updates: Works in WordPress v2.1.2 Plugin now uses MasterWish List XML rather than…

  • Speeding Up Prototype’s $$ Selector

    Prototype, as I’ve stated in the past, is our Javascript library of choice for Ajax at Plymouth State University and in the current re-writing of MasterWish. As of version 1.5 of Prototype there has been a sweet Selector function $$ which is best used when manipulating more than one dom element of the same type…i.e.…

  • MasterWish – Practicing What I Preach

    MasterWish, my labor of love (created with my friends Zach Tirrell and Jon Emmons) is my playground for Ajax and Web 2.0 experiments. If you haven’t been acquainted with the site, its a wishlist site with a schlew of features. The high point is the ability to secure down lists and grant access to specific…

  • Script.aculo.us Is My New Best Friend

    Ajax is great. DOM manipulation is sexy. I’m fairly new to the Ajax world having only developed with with it since July. MasterWish was my guinea pig and continues to be my playground for all things Web 2.0. Luckily, my manager Ken is pumped up about this whole Web 2.0/Ajax thing which has allowed me…

  • Ajax, More Than A Buzz Word

    Ajax the development technique, not to be confused with Ajax the cleaning solution, is taking the web by storm. What is it? Ajax stands for Asynchronous Javascript And XML. Its an architectural methodology on the interactions between a number of different technologies in a way that provides a more seamless user experience between user-to-server communication.…

  • MasterWish WordPress Plugin

    I am pleased to announce the arrival of the MasterWish WordPress plugin! Anyone that has an account on MasterWish and runs a WordPress blog can aggregate their publicly viewable lists. For an example of how I have it set up, check here. Get the MasterWish WordPress plugin v1.1! Setup Instructions: Installing the Plugin: 1. Download…

  • Amazon Tags!

    About Time! According to CNet, Amazon is heading down the road of tagging. This is great news in my book. I’m a follower of the Web 2.0 movement and have really been turned onto the idea of folksonomy (tagging) by products like Flickr and thus have recently brought MasterWish on board with tagging. While many…

  • bstat Search Cloud

    Casey over at MaisonBisson has developed a sweet WordPress plugin called bstat. I’ve been using it since I installed WordPress as my blog. Well, one thing that is missing from the plugin that I decided I wanted was a search cloud (like a tag cloud, only for incoming searches)… I recently created a tag cloud…

  • MasterWish Enters the Web 2.0 World

    MasterWish has been my labor of love for the past 6 months. The site – create by Zachary Tirrell, Jon Emmons, and myself – was opened to the public (in beta mode) in the middle of September. Over the past month, we’ve been pretty excited about the whole Web 2.0 craze. The initial release was…

  • Juggling Knives

    Juggling Knives I used to juggle all the time. When I was a student at PSU, during the warm months I would hang out by Rounds Hall and juggle on the grass between classes simply as a fun, sometimes frustrating passtime. About a year ago I put my clubs an knives away and hadn’t touched…

  • MasterWish

    If you have ever made an Amazon wish list (or any wish list feature from any store), then you know how handy it is…how easy it can be to add items. But, despite the wish lists’ ease of use, you typically end up with managing more than one list…which is an irritating task. Enter: MasterWish,…

  • Ducky Chicken Finger

    My wife Abby and I have an old cat (Scout). She’s 13 years old and is a house cat-turned outdoor cat-turned house cat. With our new apartment on the third floor, Scout has to stay inside most of the time and seems fairly bored…even with people in the apartment. Abby and I have been discussing…

  • Domain Name Junkie

    I’ll say it right out. I’m a domain name junkie. It didn’t start out that way…heck I owned only one or two domain names for my entire time at college. It was about a year ago that I began my problem. I’d get an idea, no matter how unbelievably stupid/odd/etc and then head straight to…