I recently programmed a redesign of Brad Ascalon’s site:

Brad is a furniture and industrial designer based in New York City with clients and exhibitions worldwide.

The site shows off some new Jquery javascript techniques.

In accordance with our mission, the Rock Dove site is now open source! Meaning that if you want to create your own Rock Dove website, now you can with pretty minimal effort.

Two sets of code have now been released: the site code for RDC, which is one thing, and the underlying library which I’m still calling Joshlib, and have been meaning to release for the longest time. I’m hoping that people will be beta-testers of this code and help me extend it further. I work on it pretty much every day because it’s used by pretty much every project I do.

When I get a minute to take a step back and think about it, I’ll create a support site for it and probably ‘brand’ it in a less self-referential way. Am harboring slight concern that someone’s going to find a critical vulnerability and exploit it—let’s hope that doesn’t happen!

I made some kinda major changes to the Rock Dove Collective site yesterday. Most of the stuff is behind-the-scenes, but not all. Like for example, there’s a map now in the Provider Directory, which shows provider locations. What’s fancy about this is that it geocodes the coordinates automatically based on address 1 & zip. No entering longitude and latitude manually, or picking points on a map!

Ok maybe it’s not that exciting unless you’re a site administrator. But it does set the stage for upcoming enhancements. More on this soon.

Here’s another site I did with Kate & Molly. Phoebe Mürer is an artist in Pennsylvania. From her site:

Phoebe Mürer works primarily as a painter, though also as a printmaker and in mixed media. Her subject matter is thematic and intensely personal—idiosyncratic and sometimes startling depictions of her curiosities, her childhood and formative years, her experience as a high functioning autistic woman, and her contentious relationship with special education and psychiatric medication.

Here is a site I worked on that launched yesterday—Jeffrey Monteiro is a fashion designer and clothing label based in New York City. Kate Howe and Molly Skonieczny did the excellent design. I did the HTML, JavaScript and PHP, and advised some re: hosting and domain-type issues.

I did a new site this weekend: The Alumni Club of Worcester. It’s a nonprofit located in Worcester, MA that serves alumni of that city’s 13 colleges and universities.

One nice flourish is the embedded Google map on their directions page, centered slightly lower to accommodate the open marker. I’ve been reading up on the Google Maps API, and plan eventually to make a map like the one at Health Care that Works.

You can check out other recent projects on the Projects page.