I put together a status page for our family Minecraft server. It is a simple way to answer the first question before trying to join: is the server actually running? This is mostly integration work rather than a new Minecraft protocol implementation. The PHP page asks the MineTools ping and query endpoints for JSON, then […]
I played with the web video remote again and gave it a few more things to do. In addition to Play and Pause, it can slow the video down, speed it up, or jump back ten seconds. Sometimes rewind is the most useful button on a remote. It still uses a very small PHP mailbox […]
Shantell and I helped Sala answer her prom invitation. Apparently a simple yes was not quite enough, so we made a little Potential Date Assessment instead. He has to pass the tests before getting his answer. 🙂 It is a Portal-themed set of web pages with typed-out instructions, passwords, and a few different challenges. I […]
I made a testing page for cross-origin requests in IE10 and Windows 8. CORS is one of those things where a tiny difference in a header can completely change what the browser lets you do. I wanted to be able to change one thing at a time and actually see what happened. The client uses […]
Shantell and I made a web version of our family’s Story Game. Usually everybody starts a story on a piece of paper, passes it around the circle, and continues the story they receive. The important part is that you only get to see what the previous person wrote. By the end, the story has generally […]
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 have been playing with the word-finding side of Kindoggle. Shaking up a board is easy enough, but it is nice to find out which words we missed when the time is up. There is a solitaire page too. The PHP solver reads a dictionary into two lookup tables: complete words and all their prefixes. […]
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 […]
