Posts Tagged ‘projects’
1I think everyone knows by now that I’m terrible at food blogging. The Noshings part of this site was supposed to be a record of my semi-daily attempts to learn the art of Cooking Really Well. I have not been recording. And part of this has been that I never have enough time to compose a whole, coherent entry around the night’s cookings. I’d rather just post the recipe, but just posting a recipe without a story feels kind of lame. So I just don’t do anything.
Sometime this summer, for my birthday, Yang decided he would write me a recipe saving web app. I’d been whining about my inability to remember good recipes and my apparent allergy to posting incomplete recipe blogposts for quite some time, and he took matters into his own hands. Thus YumBox version 1 was born!
Out of boredom and a little deviousness, I decided to revamp this simple little webgame I coded in PHP a while back. It has a spicy new layout (for some reason it reminds me of chili peppers) and involved massive amounts of help from Yang the First Class Programmer Boy (thanks, YtFCPB). It is called…
… and it is a cross between the Dadaist parlor game Exquisite Corpse and the children’s game Telephone.
No there really is no point in it… at least practically speaking (but I donno, maybe you’ll find that it is (unintentially) a great way to beef up your grammar chops… tee hee). For me, though, this was a great way to get back into the world of web programming. Because I’m preparing to take on a much more massive and ambitious (at least for my sucky programming fu) project, involving Thank You cards and acts of kindness and eventually, an awe-inspiring web-based dynamically generated display of visual complexity… and I hope to have this ready in 2 months for inclusion in my grad school app.
I’ll write a longer blog later about this Thank You cards idea and how it came to be, but for now, dinner is calling. Yom yom yom.
