Hello! Welcome to Wegner Design!
My name is Joe Wegner.
I'm a lot of things, but chances are that you're most interested in my Web Design,
jQuery Plugins, or Blog. Oh, and just FYI, I do most of my programming in
PHP, HTML5, and Node.js.
My name is Joe Wegner.
I'm a lot of things, but chances are that you're most interested in my Web Design,
jQuery Plugins, or Blog. Oh, and just FYI, I do most of my programming in
PHP, HTML5, and Node.js.
I'm glad you asked! I do a whole bunch of nerdy stuff during my days, and I'm convinced that people like you want to hear about it. So, that could be stuff like reviewing awesome IDEs, or maybe a tutorial on writing a jQuery plugin, or even announcements about me releasing one of my projects.
As I approach a new phase in life (I'm leaving my current job, if you didn't know) the thought of starting something new keeps creeping into my head. I keep looking around at all the people that are flourishing in the startup world and am simply jealous. So, as I daydream I come to the realization that I don't have a ton of million-dollar ideas, and often fall back on trying to come up with aw...
80char is a huge social networking project that I've founded, targeted towards the programming community. For a long time
I've felt that there was a gap in the social networking community that really made it pretty useless for programmers.
As a budding programmer, the thing I always searched for (on twitter, facebook, etc.) was a way to easily share my code, and more importantly,
discover great code from the people around me
80char solves this problem. At face value, 80char is just a really great interface posting your code online. As you dive into the platform, though,
80char gets to know you a little better, and intelligently suggests people for you to watch. The goal of the 80char system is to connect you
with other programmers who are great at the things you love!
Have you ever used FTP before? How'd you do it? Filezilla? Your browser? Some other crappy FTP client? Doesn't matter -
one way or another, I would bet money that the experience sucked. No one likes FTP.
fileDrop was built to ease the pain for businesses that require an easy method to move files back and forth. First and foremost, fileDrop's
interface just makes sense. On top of that we've got quick uploads and downloads, secure transfers, easy management, intelligent notifications,
popup previews, and tons of configurations for all you overbearing sys admins. Don't make your clients deal with your crappy FTP system - give fileDrop a try.
jTooltip was the first jQuery tutorial that I ever wrote. It's a real simple piece, but is quite useful. It allows you to quickly add tooltip help icons for your web app. The setup just requires you to call the infoBox function on your element, and it will quickly parse the element into a tooltip icon. While the base plugin is pretty simple, I provide some examples of extending it in the tutorial/
jquery-imageMap was little plugin I built for one of the early designs of www.printarts.com. The ideas was inspired by the main image posted daily on Bing. Essentially, it recreates that functionality so that you can put hoverable text icons on your images. Packaged along with the jQuery plugin is an easy tool for creating the configuration text on your image.
Advanced Style Sheets for Node.js. LESS and SASS have been all the craze recently in web design, but the problem is that they're fat. Sure, relatively, they're not that bad - but certainly they slow down your load times. Node-ass is a solution for node.js based web servers that allows the server to do the parsing of the advanced style sheets, rather than the user. At just 3KB for the entire git repo, node-ass is perfect for your node.js project!
I'm a pretty big believer that less is more when it comes to web servers - that's why I started using Node.js in the first place! So, while there's plenty of great Node.js web servers out there, I would (almost) always recommend starting from scratch, and adding features as you need them. That's why I built node-session - it's a great tool for the barebones Node.js web server, which will allow you to store user sessions. Again, just 3KB for the entire repository, node-session is a no-bloat solution for your web server.