Work
Meal Loop is a recipe repository and meal planning application. Meal Loop uses the power of tags to offer dynamic meal plan generation. User preferences are available to allow users to specify how they would like their meals generated, ranging from completely automatic, to a meal by meal basis as chosen by the user. There is also the ability to generate meals based on tags, so for instance, if you eat fish on Monday, you can add “fish” tag to the preferences for Monday, and only the meals tagged with “fish” will be chosen on Monday. Other features include a weekly Shopping List, and plenty more ideas that have yet to be added at this point. The application was created using the Zend PHP framework, along with the Yahoo! UI library, and a MySQL database.
FlickShotPhoto!
FlickShotPhoto! is an image search mashup application (Flickr + Webshots + Photobucket + Yahoo) that was created as part of term project for a web applications class taken Spring 2007 at GMU (additional info can be found here). This application was mainly a learning experience to gain knowledge of various web technologies (PHP/HTML/CSS/Javascript) and best practices of how they should be utilized together. Web services, RSS feeds, and DOM manipulation were used to utilize the services of the applications composing the mashup. One interesting concept of the application is a clipboard feature. The clipboard was implemented using AJAX, and allow users to save images of interest to a clipboard while performing various searches. Other features include a save feature to allow users to save images to their local disk and an edit feature that links images to a third party application for on-the-fly image editing.
RSS News Ticker
This was the first little tool created for this site. It is a simple HTML/CSS/Javascript news ticker that displays RSS feed headlines. Magpie RSS was utilized to parse the RSS feeds, and script.aculo.us was used for the fading effects. Feel free to use it on your site if you’d like, here is the source. Just shoot me an email (skrehnbrink[at]gmail) with a URL of where it is being used. All link backs are much appreciated!