Recently this amazing Chicago calligrapher (okay she’s my wife) told me she wanted a new website. So we set about creating something. She’s on a purple kick so we used purple for the design.

She wanted something fun and different on the homepage, so I used jQuery to create some cards coming out of some envelopes. It’s just a few layer images, and one moving up and down.

Also there’s a sample page, where the images are enlarged for easier viewing. Again, jQuery came to the rescue, in a way similar to Lightbox – my own design of course.

You can check out the design, or her calligraphy, at gracefulquill.com

Recently I put together a tabbed color chart for a grout company. The problem was allowing customers to select the color and size before reaching their shopping cart. The backend is just a few php arrays so the colors and product IDs can be easily changed.

With jQuery this was a simple project. I created a few sections for the colors to go into. I use the jQuery to show the one that is selected.

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Say you run a server of some kind at home and you don’t have a static IP (who wants to pay the extra cash?), and you need the IP to update after your router restarts. It’s simple with afraid.org and a bash script run by the cron system.

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It’s finally here! A beta version for the Webmin Nginx Module has been released. I’ve posted it here for everyone to download.

Hopefully someone will find it useful. It’s obviously in need of some more work, but it’s a start and I believe fills a hole in the current webmin module situation.

I would also be nice to get ideas for other features people may wish to see in the future.

I know some people are excited about the nginx webmin module I’m working on. I’d just like to give a quick update about the status of the module. I can’t say when the first release will happen, or how well it’ll work on systems other than Debian at this point, but I’m loosely hoping for the end of this week. Maybe June 11. 2010. You can view the project page here: nginx module.

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