Idiot Banter http://www.idiotbanter.com Nonsense about Front-End Web Development, Music Business and Snowboarding by Matt McCausland Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:36:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 IdiotBanterhttp://feedburner.google.com jQuery Tic Tac Toe Updated http://www.idiotbanter.com/2011/11/07/jquery-tic-tac-toe-updated/ http://www.idiotbanter.com/2011/11/07/jquery-tic-tac-toe-updated/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:34:49 +0000 Matt http://www.idiotbanter.com/?p=737 It’s been a few years, but I finally got around to making my jQuery Tic Tac Toe smarter. Previously, the computer would just pick a random available square, not any more. The computer now figures out if you’re about to win, or if it’s about to win, and makes it’s decision accordingly.

Good luck!

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you will die a slow and expensive death
I will help pay your medical bills
maybe cover the cost of your respirator
to try to extend your life by days, weeks, months
in vain

as early repayment
maybe don’t blow your disgusting smoke in my face
as I walk by
jealous
remembering how much I used to love to smoke

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Outside

Kitchen & Dining Room

Kitchen

Raised Bedroom

Bedroom Inside

Living Room

Bathroom

Kitchen & Bedroom

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I wrote the HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP for this custom WordPress theme for MuchMore.ca (re-branded from Much More Music). This project involved using WordPress as a full site CMS rather than just a blog platform. The site even features a blog within a blog (Daily Fix).

Home Page

Show Page

The Daily Fix

Personality Page

Top Ten Voting

Tour Dates

Search Results

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I cut the XHTML and CSS for this massive Much Music Video Award site. Some highlights include sponsor pop ups in the header, a custom javascript rotator on the home page, skinned sponsor pages, and secure voting pages.

Home Page

Voting Page

Sponsor Page

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I cut the HTML & CSS and turned it into a custom WordPress theme for the Much Music blog. The site was designed by Nick Fox. We had to import all of the old content from a very old Movable Type install; no easy task since we had to maintain SEO as the blog receives tens of thousands of page views some days.

Home Page

Article Page

Search Result Page

Author Page

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I cut the HTML and CSS for this collection of customizable Much Music show pages all based on the same basic layout.

The College Humor Show

One Tree Hill

Paris Hilton’s British Best Friend

Daddy’s Girls

A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila

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A custom WordPress theme for MuchMusic’s The New Music. Designed by Nick Fox, this theme includes a heavily customized home page that displays several posts in a variety of different ways rather than the usual 10 blog posts and a “previous posts” link.

Home Page

Article Page

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Note: Someone just brought to my attention that this looks very close to a new technology just announced by Toronto based mobile payment company Zoompass. Things are heating up!

Check it out:

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