I wanted to see how little code it would take to control a video from a different device. Open the video page on one computer, open the remote page on another, and use the Play and Pause buttons there. The video is an HTML5 <video> element. The remote sends a command to a PHP script, […]
I made a simple chat app to play with the browser-to-server part of a web page. It is not trying to replace anything. I mostly wanted to get a message from one browser onto another screen. The page uses jQuery to post a message to PHP. PHP appends it to an HTML log, and the […]
Shantell wanted her Facebook bookmark to make her solve a math problem before letting her in. That sounded like a perfectly reasonable little programming project. 🙂 I made it as a bookmarklet instead of a browser extension. The bookmark runs a small JavaScript function, asks a randomly generated multiplication or percentage question with prompt(), and […]
Shantell and I made Makelle a dress-up game for her birthday. It is called Makelle’s Costume Closet, and there are quite a few interesting combinations to try. Making something for a niece is a good excuse to be a little silly. The game itself is HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Instead of drawing every outfit onto […]
Shantell wanted to play Boggle, but we did not have a set. I had a Kindle and a fairly obvious computer-science-major solution to that problem. So we made Kindoggle! I did the programming and Shantell made the graphics. The board is an HTML table with big letters and a big button, which is a much […]
