Niko by Nik Korablin

It has been a wild six months. I remember when Ofo first came to me with the idea. It was a great idea and there was definitely a space for it in today’s online landscape. At the time, I had never took on a project so large and challenging. I did not even know anything about Ruby on Rails. All my previous experience had been in PHP and ASP.NET. After many long nights and cans of Mountain Dew, the website is finally live and ready for consumption. Check it out or read more about the process after the jump.

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Look out, it’s another jQuery plugin going your way. This latest Rails project has been forcing me to write a lot of Javascript and most of the time the plugins I find don’t cut it. So here is my rendition of a jQuery form validator. You can check out the plugin site, the code on GitHub, or just download the source right away. More after the break.

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Right now I’m hard at work on a pretty large-scale Rails projects that has both been a great learning experience as well as a headache. For the project, I needed a way for users to input numbers within a range for ratings and wanted to do something more intuitive than simple input boxes. I know there are other solutions for jQuery range sliders, but I really didn’t want to use jQuery UI. So I made my own solution.

I finished my first jQuery Plugin today and I’d like to think I did a pretty darn good job. The plugin allows you to provide a way for your users to visualize products in different colors. The plugin is light and uses only two images to achieve the effect and is very flexible and can use any color you wish. You can check out the plugin’s page, look at the source code, or keep reading for more background.

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Hey everyone! Here’s a project I’ve been working on for the past two weeks and what better time to let it go live than right after good ol’ Ricky resigns.

Santorum Mad Libs

More about the project after the jump.

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