Hack the Future is mentoring event for young future computer programming enthusiasts. Their first event was held on 28th May, 2011. I had designed T-shirts for this event. I blogged about my process earlier. Here’s a short video with the event highlights – Hack the Future at The Tech Museum The event was a big [...]
Before I start, here’s the link to my bookworm shopping cart application. I started working on building a shopping cart application two months back, but got around to finish the styling just yesterday. Since this was the first PHP/mySql/ AJAX application I was building, I started to follow the steps from the book “Bulletproof AJAX”. [...]
My original idea for this web application was – 1) on signin, pull all connections 2) for each connection, get twitter id if available and the current location 3) show all the connections on map using locations 4) show last twitter update on hover on the map Linkedin does not allow us to get twitter [...]
I learned about the html11.org website in Microsoft’s web camp. The concept is very funny and stretches our imaginations. There are endless possibilities with the elements like <wind>, <taste>, etc. The website also has cool usage demos. This is a screenshot of the <wind> tag demo.
I have designed T-shirts for an event “Hack the future 1″ which will be held at Tech Museum on May 28th. The basic idea of the event is to foster kids’ interest in programming and computers. The event required designs for two types of shirts – for the mentors and for the kids. The requirements [...]
Two weeks back, I emailed a brief survey to all our readers to get feedback about the newsletter. Based on that feedback, I decided to change the approach of designing our newsletters. One of the suggestions was to include contributions from members. Other was the newsletter felt more like Minutes of the meeting. Another suggestion [...]
Gmail : Let’s say, I send an email to contact#1. Then, I copy the same content and send to contact#2. Ofcourse, I change the email address and the greetings – I say “Hi contact#2″, without changing the title. The text sent to contact#2 will look like “Hi contact#2, <show quoted text>, which on click, will [...]
The objective of my project is to get location of all my LinkedIn connections and then display them on maps. I tried Yahoo maps. Here’s the api link that can be used to get the latitude and longitude of a given address/ location: http://where.yahooapis.com/geocode?location=INSERT_LOCATION&flags=J&appid=INSERT_API_KEY Using the Yahoo maps, if you try “San Francisco Bay Area”, [...]
Tomorrow it’s Cinco De Mayo. In keeping with the festivities and the mood, I designed the newsletter with the vivid colors and patterns. The image of the man dressed in the authentic western dress was taken from Google images.
With this mash-up, you can view news reports from different websites regarding a current Twitter trend. I get the current trends using Twitter api and the related news using the Google News api. Pretty cool, eh? I have used HTML, JQuery, CSS and Illustrator (I created that bird). I have used ‘Philosopher’ font from the [...]
I learned a lot from this event yesterday. I thought I will share some bits here. The event started with HTML5 video demo by Doris Chen. Doris showed us how the html5 video tag worked on different browsers. It didn’t work on Firefox 4. She also mentioned IE’s developer tool (press F12). She demoed the [...]
Here’s a link to the CMS sign-up page. In the sign-up page, I check if the typed username exists, check the password for the minimum requirements, not allow copy paste in the password fields, generate a captcha and verify it. I have used AJAX calls to do these validations and display helpful messages. When the [...]