Web applications (project category)
This ought to be a list of all projects in this category. Unless that would be too long?
Today I have launched the latest version of www.maestrosync.com, which I have given the rather uninspired title of Novus. Fundamentally, it’s based on the latest versions of WordPress and K2. There was then much designing and coding (HTML, CSS, and proper PHP) and the site was born. Some brief notes:
- I wanted to give the site a proper and stylish design, so I used a grid. It doesn’t leap out at you because the design is simple, but almost everything is aligned to the grid.
- The colour scheme is a bit of a change for me—in the past I have mostly used shades of blue, but the red goes well with the darker blue.
- This is the first version of the site which is really usable and easy to navigate, particularly when it comes to my projects.
- The logo is a stylised ae ligature, which itself comes from when I used to style the title as ‘mæstrosync’.
There are still a few rough edges that I’m working on, so ignore them for the time being.
My latest mini-project, aftcast, generates random blocky graphics based on a few parameters. I intend to make it more customisable. It reminds me of writing little programs on graphics calculators back in high school.
Now featuring an administration panel and proper user management things. Also, some extra tweaks here and there. Opinionated is still very basic, but it’s quite usable.
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Opinionated is a very simple content submission and rating system.
This is the latest version of Opinionated, my hyper-basic democratic idea sharing and ranking web application. I believe this version adds minor cosmetic tweaks and the ‘change password’ feature (yes, it’s that basic). I could add more features like moderation but I feel that would go against the spirit of free democratic discourse (although perhaps it could use an “exile user” feature). The code’s there, so if anyone did want such a feature they should be able to add it themselves (or ask me nicely to do it).
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Opinionated is a very simple content submission and rating system.
This is the first release of Opinionated (the software). Everything you need is included in the zip: edit the variables in connect.php to suit your database, edit the $settings array in start.php to customise the strings, and import the contents of opinionated.sql into a new database.
Note: there is an extra array key you can customise that is not included by default in the source release: submittext. This defines a message displayed on the ’submit’ page: to use it, add something along the lines of
'submittext' => '<p>By submitting this entry, you agree to our rules of use</p>',
to the array definition.
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Opinionated is a very simple content submission and rating system.
Opinionated is my new project and an experiment in democracy and content. Here anyone can (once they have signed up) post opinions of any kind—links, humour, insight, whatever—andother people can rate it. This is a minimalistic project, so there’s not much in the way of fancy features. Work out the navigation for yourself. Visit it, sign up, have your say, and help sort the wheat from the chaff.*
* at time of writing, it’s all chaff.
Opinionated is a very simple content submission and rating system.
Omniparrot is an interim solution that you can use while the Jabberwalker is down. It’ll search isoHunt, Torrentspy, and mininova. It’s not particularly good, but it beats having to search the sites individually.
With thanks to ElSeer.
Omniparrot is a basic torrent metasearcher. I can’t really take credit for it but I will anyway.
If you have any experience with sites that use tags (eg. Flickr, Last.fm, del.icio.us, Technorati), you’ll be able to pick up Tagos quickly. Users can create items (which are primarily text, but can be fully formatted with headers, emphasis, images, links, etc.), tag these items, and search for items based on their tags. Items can also be editable, wiki-style.
It’s currently in early stages of development, but that’s no excuse not to check it out and give me some feedback. When it gets to a high-enough level of quality (the code, not the content), I plan on releasing it as open-source.
Tagos is a thing where users can add, edit, and tag articles.
I have now got a legitimate domain name: this site can now be found at www.maestrosync.com!