Web Development

Recently, I finished an HTML5 app for browsing Flickr photos. It's rather unique because it all runs on one page, using jQuery to fetch photo urls and such from a web service backend.

I've submitted the code to a contest running over at NetTuts so hopefully I become a finalist. Since I don't know how these things will be voted, it's kinda a shot in the dark on whether or not anything becomes of it. Needless to say, it eventually WILL be available at Code Canyon

You can try this app out below. Works in Safari (Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad), Chrome, Firefox, and IE7+.

http://www.gabereiser.com/flickr

ThemeShaper has an excellent 11 part tutorial on making your own WordPress theme. They take you through the ins and outs of making a theme and leave only design up to you. Though I don't use WordPress for my sites, it's still an awesome article series for anyone wanting to customize their own WordPress blog.

http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-themes-templates-tutorial/

NetTuts+ has a great article on getting Apache/PHP/MySQL setup on a windows machine for testing. Written by Dan Wellman... "Running a local development web server is one of the best ways of learning AJAX; reading up on it is one thing, but being able to pass the raw data back and forth between a browser and a server is really the only way to truly understand what is happening at a fundamental level. To create the dynamic and interactive apps and sites that we've come to know and love, you need a development server." read it.