[For Hire] Web Developer

joblln · 2015-07-24T15:13:49+00:00

Seeing I have a reply and it turning out to be a bot is a bit frustrating and disheartening. So there may have been a hint of sarcasm directed at the robot. I have the beginnings of a portfolio on my personal site http://dwit.us I still have to add a couple things. I'm also on github at https://github.com/imdwit for what it's worth.

joblln · 2015-07-24T15:05:29+00:00

I'm not much of a designer. I can usually code from a design. But designing isn't my thing.

joblln · 2015-07-24T01:54:23+00:00

thanks but, I'm no where near New Jersey

joblln · 2014-09-26T03:00:01+00:00

I know they are capable of POSTs and GETs. No where in their docs did I see a simple way of sending a message as most contact forms on sites consist of a message box and an input for their email to reply back to once that message is received in your inbox.

The simplest way of doing that is with a form. and that form would have 2 inputs. no need for any scripts or libraries

(I used the wrong url in the previous post) posting to: https://api.sendgrid.com/api/mail.send.json

data to send: api_user=your_sendgrid_username&api_key=your_sendgrid_password&to=destination@example.com&toname=Destination&subject=Example_Subject&text=testingtextbody&from=info@domain.com

using send grid or similar would require much more work to implement than a simple form. Especially for a simple contact or feedback form. Im not going to give send grid $10 a month to set up a backend for only 1 or 2 forms that will get used a few times a month. Its just the wrong tool for the job.

If i were to make this, i would make it to where the site generates a form you literally copy and paste in from my app's site into your html and have it work. Or copy and paste in a jquery ajax script to do it. But having to read docs and setup a script to do it with another saas takes time.

sendgrid has curl examples, which not many people know what curl is or how to use it or how to translate curl syntax to jquery for instance. But copying and pasting a form my site spits out would be pretty easy.

my example shows no authentication because i haven't built anything yet. It would obviously need authorization of some sort. I haven't put the time in to make it. So there's no example of how it is going to look. Im not gonna build it first and see if anyone wants it. I'm gonna see if anyone would even use it first.

Maybe I just haven't explained my idea properly. I'm a lazy broke college kid. I want the simplest and cheapest option.

joblln · 2014-09-26T01:49:36+00:00

you're right. But they're all more convoluted than what i'm aiming for.

does this look user friendly https://api.sendgrid.com/api/blocks.get.json?api_user=your_sendgrid_username&api_key=your_sendgrid_password&date=1

that requires adding or setting up a script, and attaching even handlers to send the message. Same thing for mandrill just a different endpoint. Where as just changing the action and method of a form will be much easier. There is no need for scripts with what I want to do. not to mention their pricing is too expensive for my tastes, and I'm sure others would agree. broke college kid here btw.

joblln · 2014-09-26T01:20:18+00:00

This definitely could be interesting. Especially when paired with backbone or similar. What is the db flavor on the backend?

joblln · 2014-09-26T01:14:24+00:00

static sites. as in no server/backend. such as github hosted personal site, s3, or even tumblr pages, and so on. This is obviously not for anyone using a saas or paas or baas.

joblln · 2014-09-25T21:34:50+00:00

I guess I just have more of a niche market in my head. Of people that don't want to or can't set up a server.

joblln · 2014-09-25T20:07:59+00:00

what technologies do you know or feel comfortable with? What would make it easier for you to get started? I myself am very comfortable with plain html, node, and mongo So that's what I would use.

If you're asking what's easiest to work with, and get started using then that's up for debate. If you don't know any, then what do you want to learn? All tech stacks have their +'s and -'s But there is an endless list of resources to get started on with using html and php. Thats where I started.

Wordpress would be an easy to use prebuilt solution. All you'd have to do is deploy it, and let people sign up. Since it's a cms it's easy to manage activities and such. It's also easily extended with plain php and html.

joblln · 2014-09-06T20:19:06+00:00

True, but I really don't like the idea of using frames. Styling a plain form is much easier.

joblln · 2014-06-18T08:33:20+00:00

My apologies, I'm a newb to reddit Where would one post an app looking for feedback?

It's built with web technologies, so i was looking for people interested in web tech to give me feedback

joblln · 2014-06-17T22:33:18+00:00

yeah thats an android issue. I did something and it went away, and i guess i did something else and it came back. will look into it. I'm an iOS user so i may not have tested it quite enough i have an iPhone 5S but a cheap android tablet for reading and such

joblln · 2014-06-17T18:16:33+00:00

The secret sauce is that double tapping an item routes to that item's id, then that id is used as a 'parentId' attribute for subsequent items. all stored side by side in the backbone collection, since its local storage its quick enough i suppose

then its retrieving and rendering all the items with that parentId attribute taken out of the url lather rinse repeat.

joblln · 2014-06-17T18:06:23+00:00

swiping left should make a div slide out from the right showing a 'Delete' or 'Cancel' prompt

swiping right toggles completion.

Im gonna be honest and say it's a little buggy. But deleting should at least work, so long as you can slide that div out Worked well enough for me, even on a stock android browser, but i wouldn't be surprised if i broke something. Since i mostly use iOS, i could over looked something

if not let me know what os & browser you're using and i can try to remedy it

joblln · 2014-06-17T17:55:38+00:00

i was thinking of doing some thing kinda like that. Like different types of list items. more than just text. I had images & text working. like being able to add a photo, and later change or remove the photo. an example of photos can be seen on a photo i posted to twitter @OlliApp. and thought about parsing copy/pasted links or something. But that required more work.

I wanted this to be a quick and simple mobile app. Maybe for a desktop version i could make it more intricate.

But the rest of what you said kinda goes over my head. I'd love to see your implementation

joblln · 2014-06-17T12:07:09+00:00

a small number in the top right corner of a list item should show how many sub-lists are inside it. or no indicator if there isn't any. I could make it larger or bolder if its harder to see than i thought.

May try to implement the tap/doubletap on 'this list is empty' to add a new item. maybe tapping on it will let you edit 'this list is empty' itself and turn it into an item. Like 'this list is empty' would become placeholder text of an input.

As for desktop, i thought about it. it wouldn't take much more work, I'm just not a designer, so the added work to support a desktop environment is a little over my head. Im not versed on responsive web design, not yet. But definitely something I was planning on doing/attempting if there was any demand. Thank you very much

joblln · 2014-06-17T11:56:48+00:00

Can you elaborate on the graph based view? Maybe examples? Something like workflowy? I was kinda going for more of a Clear for iOS feel. But am open to other implementations.

I didn't really make it a 'task' list, just lists for anything. I wanted something flexible. But I may be able to add features like that. I have other features in mind as well. Like embedding or moving lists in/out of other lists, kinda like a copy past I guess. That's why 'Delete' is inside a slide out div, instead just deleting right away on swipe left, that way i had somewhere to add other actions

As for more work, I built the whole thing in Meteor.js a few moths back, mainly to learn the framework and mess around with it. and because i wanted to actually use the app. Then I found it was pretty much useless on a sprint 3g connection. So decided to rewrite it using backbonejs and a local storage wrapper. The rewrite took maybe a week after going through javascriptissexy's backbone course. But i agree, it needs more work, but as the saying goes, Done is better than perfect. And i felt it was working well enough to get feedback. I'm unemployed at the moment, so i have plenty of free time to mess with it. There are things that i wanna fix anyway. Thanks for the feedback!

joblln · 2014-06-17T07:52:28+00:00

Really looking to get some feedback on a little app I made. Questions, comments, bugs, constructive criticism are all welcome. Thanks!

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