Recent Work

Speaking of work, the project I had been working on for the past six months at Huge just launched this week. It's a social networking site for Disney called the Disney Family Community that's geared towards parents, encouraging them to exchange parenting tips, family-friendly travel ideas the funny things kids say, etc.

This was a large coordinated effort between designers and front-end developers at Huge, working with a back-end Java/SQL development team from Tallan and Disney. My primary role was writing the JavaScript applications that drive the widgets on the profile pages.

You have to be logged in to really play around with the widgets, but I've posted a simple sample from the profile's signature creator below that demonstrates some of the drag & drop functionality and animation I was able to implement with help from the YUI JavaScript library.

Drag stickers here to add, drag them away to remove.

All in all, it was a pretty cool project, and I learned a lot about the power of DOM scripting and object-oriented JavaScript. If you ever want to clear the room at a party, ask me about using hidden iframes for faking AJAX when you need to upload an image but can't afford a postback, or piggy-backing data onto HTML forms as JavaScript properties to get asynchronously loading iframes to communicate.