new jquery project

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new jquery project, originally uploaded by jrossol.

so… havent’ been blogging in a while…. well… there is a GOOD REASON. Just finished teaching myself some basic jquery so I can be more marketable as a web developer. FUN STUFF.  Basically, I built an interactive library of ALL the music I own so people can take a look at what I like, read my reviews… etc.  I used a very powerful yet surprisingly simple-to-use javascript library called jquery, and also implemented some asynchronous database calls that populate the meta-data without requiring a page refresh.  It’s still a work in progress, but I’m excited about its potential.  I will continue to update it with more cd’s, better effects, and more of MY OWN reviews (not the stock Amazon filler that’s currently there).  I’m probably breaking some copyright by doing this but what the hey… FAIR USE!

Check it out @ http://www.blogstitution.com/CD/index.php.  Click on an album to see the effects.

*** YOU will NEED safari or Firefox 3… or else you will have rendering problems.

A new Web project–a digital bookshelf

I have been wanting to make an easy-to-administer digital web bookshelf for quite a while now. Delicious Library was a great concept and a good piece of software, but it is not a web application. To my surprise, I discovered the Delicious Library SQL Exporter on macupdate.com… allowing me to get all my Delicious information into a pre-built SQL database.

A few hours later… with some custom graphics, CSS, and PHP… I was able to get the information from the database to display nicely on the web. If you want to play around with the files/code…

download the files here…

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