Silicon Chisel

Feb

Find-a-Therapist v2 Launch

A new version of the successful psychotherapist directory - Find-a-Therapist.com – was launched this week. It features a complete rewrite from the ground up for speed, ecommerce support, and deployability across multiple platforms. A sister site for psychotherapy information - Find-a-Therapist.info – was launched as well.

Dec

StikiPad Template CSS

I’ve added a nice CSS template for the StikiPad online Wiki service to the files area. It uses the “Classic” layout style – just duplicate that in your “My StikiPad”, then paste in the new CSS and update the reference to it in the Layout.

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Oct

NewOrleans.com

Last month I completed development work on NewOrleans.com, the site for the city of New Orleans. This was a massive rework of a legacy site, some parts of which had been around for many, many years. The new deployment’s core is the Joomla CMS. Supporting are phpAdsNew for banner ads, Gallery2 for photos, and Simple Machines Forums.

Aug

Web 2.0 and AJAX – Everything Old Is New Again

After the dot-com bubble burst, it seems like all things Internet fell into a kind of malaise. Investors were scared to take risks, jobs were few and far between, and in general the Internet was being treated like a utility – a step below phone service, but above trash pickup.But some new AJAX-based offerings are bringing some of the old excitement back. You can…

Aug

Meebo

At its core, meebo is a multi-protocol, AJAX-based instant messaging client. It handles all the major IM channels through on a web page. No ad-infested bloat-ware application to load. This month they also added the “Meebo Me” widget which lets you see visitors on your site as chat clients in your Meebo page. This kind of functionality opens up a lot…

May

Aces High Performance Charts

This is a nifty little package I put together using a CSV parser to grind through plane performance data and a slick Flash-based charting package. It allows players of the MMOG “Aces High” to compare their favorite fighter planes in a variety of categories.

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May

Mint

One of the slickest web statistics packages I’ve seen is Mint. It has a modular architecture, and the most easy-to-read and understand console I’ve seen. You won’t get the same complex analytics as with something like WebTrends, but it’s only $30/domain and you can actually use this.