Demo: nonsense-waffle.meteor.com Repo: github.com/kalinr/nonsense-waffle Nonsense Waffle is a word game that I started building as a personal project in February of 2015 using the new real-time Node.js based framework called Meteor. In this game, players compete by compiling randomly generated words to create funny phrases then try to sell their ideas in the most humorous ways possible, in sort of an advanced like button and popularity challenge with a lot of role-playing elements that’s all based on silly nonsense. The game is in its infancy right now, but I do have a working demo up and running…
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Samsung's Milk Music at Smartek21
In December of 2014 I joined a small team at Smartek21, JavaScripting for Samsung’s Milk Music web player. We used jQuery, Backbone.js, Underscore.js and Require.js, in an MVC structure to communicate with a custom API which interfaced with Slacker’s API to get most of the data. Milk Music is basically Slacker Radio but is Samsung branded and has a better user interface–at least in my opinion. The application was mostly complete when I began but I helped solve many bugs and added a few minor features that were necessary for production release. We worked with…
Read MoreCSS Playtime
I wanted to get some practice with CSS and Sass and learn CSS animations, so I started fiddling around in a gihub repo. I didn’t set out to create anything specific but wound up making a simple JavaScript animation engine that cycles through a list of objects representing a series of animations, initializing each one on a timer. I made a jQuery and a vanilla JavaScript version. This plunker uses the vanilla version.
Read MorePDF Creation Station v4.0
In October and November of 2014, I had some time to work on my own personal projects, so I returned to my WordPress plugin Kalin’s PDF Creation Station. You can see the older version in an older post. I have rewritten the client side to use Angular.js and Bootstrap, almost entirely eliminating jQuery from the equation, and added a couple new features such as widget and custom menu support, a new sorting and pagination system for the lists of available posts and generated files, and the ability to generate .txt and…
Read MoreAccretive Tech, Streamate.com
From August 2011 to July 2014 I worked for Accretive Technology Group, maintaining their flagship product, a live streaming adult entertainment platform, duplicated over 1500+ websites. I started as a Flash ActionScript developer, maintaining and adding features to their performer client, of which I don’t have any screenshots, as well as the user client shown in this first image. You can also see the user client by going to Streamate.com in a desktop browser and clicking on any performer. Warning: this is an NSFW site. The screenshots on this page…
Read MoreOpposing the Department of Education Doesn’t Mean Opposing Education
At first glance it seems that getting rid of the department of education would be insane. Your first reaction is to think “oh, he doesn’t think people should be able to get an education,” but this judgement isn’t fair. Somehow it seems like we’ve gotten to a point where in order to support something people are required to support it on a massive scale and in an absolute fashion. However, for some of us we just don’t see our federal government handling our education better than the average state. For…
Read MoreAtheist Quotes
Atheist Quotes Here’s a few quotes I had lying around that I felt kinda applied to atheism or at least my views on spirituality. I have probably skipped over most of the good ones and after looking over these quotes again, it’s kind of a sad list, but there it is. I can’t guarantee they’re accurate and whatnot. I figure I’ll post them anyway since I’m trying to start just writing and posting without thinking and debating so much about what I say and not worrying so much about what…
Read MoreHappiness Is A Choice
This Is Scientific Proof That Happiness Is A Choice. This is an article I found that sparked my thinking about this concept. I don’t like the idea of ‘proof’ since I don’t think there is such a thing as proof since there is always the chance something in our reasoning is incorrect and I think it’s dangerous to think of things in absolutes like that. However, I do truly believe that happiness is a choice. Furthermore I believe many other things in life that people believe they are stuck with…
Read MoreWacky Words Facebook MMO
A comedy word-based Facebook massive multiplayer game built on Flash Builder and Google App Engine.
Read MoreAS2 Slot Machine Number Scroll Class
An AS2 class that allows you to easily create and animate a slot machine style number scroller with two simple function calls.
Read MoreGame Landing Page
This is a landing page I built with JQuery and CSS for Big Fish Games.
Read MorePDF Creation Station WordPress Plugin
This WordPress plugin allows you to build highly customizable PDF documents from any combination of pages and posts, or add a link to any post to download a PDF of that post.
Read MoreKalin's Post List WordPress Plugin
This WordPress plugin creates a shortcode, PHP snippet, or widget for placing highly customizable lists of posts, pages, or attachments into your post content or theme, built in PHP and JQuery.
Read MoreEasy Edit Links WordPress Plugin
This is a simple WordPress Plugin written with PHP and JQuery that adds a convenient little box to your page/post edit screen that contains a list of all pages, posts, tags, categories and links, with edit buttons for each and a link to the actual live page for easy copying and pasting.
Read MoreAS3 Character Text Effect Class
This is a class I built in 2008 to animate any textfield, character by character. All you have to do is create a textfield, enter the text you wish to animate, then pass that into the class and it will animate each individual character in or out based on different parameters.
Read MoreAppcelerator – Batch File Actions
This is a tool that allows you to parse through folders and files and commit an action (move, delete, copy, rename) on any file and/or folder that matches certain criteria. You can even enter a regex to select items. This is written in JQuery and HTML, utilizing the Appcelerator engine to turn it into a desktop app that runs on Windows, Linux or Mac.
Read MoreGoogle App Engine Date Sync
This is a little app built with JQuery and Python on the Google App Engine, designed to hold values that could be loaded when needed from Flash banner ads.
Read MoreRetail Price Calculator
In 2009 I made this Walmart price calculator/wishlist banner in AS3. The data comes from an XML file and a folder full of merchandise images.
Read MoreStore Locator Demo (Google Maps API)
In 2010 I built a prototype for a T-Mobile store locator as a proof of concept, using the Google Maps API and a T-Mobile store API.
Read MoreFlex FaceBook Image App
In early 2010, to learn the FaceBook API, I built a Flex application to allow you to quickly look through all your friends photos in one easy location.
Read MoreAS3 QuickTimer Class
I needed an easy way to see how long my animations were taking, but something that could be quickly turned off when I needed to publish for a client review. I came up with this simple QuickTimer class.
Read MoreMooster Day Flash Banners
In 2010 I built a set of animated Flash banners for a nonprofit called Global Nomads Group using the GreenSock engine.
Read MoreCatch the Water Droplets (Flash Game)
In 2010 I built a set of interactive banner ads for the clean water charity, Tap Project, using a little piece of transparent video.
Read MoreHotel Contest Microsite
In early 2010 I built a Flash microsite for HomeAway. It was a Griswolds Vacation themed contest where people could upload their videos and stories describing their worst hotel nightmares. I worked with the Kyte API for video serving, built a voting system and integrated a bunch of pre-built timeline animations.
Read MoreMini Bar, Big Bill (Mini Flash Game)
In 2009, working for Publicis Seattle, I built a fun little banner ad that allowed viewers to roll over objects in a mini bar, producing randomized animations and tallying a ridiculously high hotel bill, ultimately advertising a company called HomeAway.
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