Jacob KingWeb Designer

It's a small detail, but implies negligence when overlooked: the standard copyright notice at the bottom of a web site. Google has one. I have one. Even these guys have one. Maintaining this manually poses one of two awkward scenarios:

1) Forgetting to do it altogether

2) World's Worst New Years Party

With my recent spike in traffic, I did what any guy with a web site would do; try and capitalize. I placed a block of Google-provided ads in hope of raking in a few extra dollars. Let's take a look at the tally for these few days of exposure, shall we?

Zero dollars richer and a little wiser. Back to work.

Speedometers on web sites are nothing new. There's even Javascript attempts using pre-rendered images. However, probably thanks to Internet Explorer's continued lack of <canvas> support*, I couldn't find a jQuery speedometer with the pinpoint accuracy of a needle rendered in real-time.

We had a unique situation at work where we required just that. Having become the de-facto jQuery Plugin Guy in my office, I got to work on building one.

I have now submitted two of my jQuery plugins to the official repository. However, jQuery.com still expects plugin authors to host live demos on their own web space. Today I created a page for these working demos.

jQuery Plugins site area

This morning I wrote a simple jQuery plugin and posted it to the repository on jQuery.com. This isn't the first plugin I've authored, but I felt this was a good candidate for my first public release; the scope is very narrow, and the code is lightweight (<1kb uncompressed) and should be easy to maintain.