I just got back from Christmas holidays in Regina when my cell phone rang - it was CBC Regina wanting to talk about TaxiMe! With it being live and all, I had some goosebumps accompanied by some dry mouth while I was talking on the phone.

I went to their website to get the audio file and much to my disgust it was in a .ram file format. I spent a few hours downloading some converting software and came out with a nicely polished mp3. Listen to it here.

If you hadn’t heard the awesome news, www.taxime.ca was featured in the Metro newspaper here in Ottawa - the article can be found at http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/local/article/155596. I want to thank everyone for the support they’ve given me throughout the development.

Thanks to all the bloggers like Joe Thornley for writing a lovely post about it - not to mention the traffic from twitter has gone through the roof.

This morning I was interviewed on CBC Ottawa - Morning Radio by Hallie Cotnam about www.taxime.ca. She was incredibly friendly and asked me various questions regarding the idea and the future of the application. The interview will be broadcasted Monday morning but I’m not sure what time - you can go here to stream it.

Now it’s time to go have a few beers and sing Christmas carols!

This weekend I’m getting prepared for the biggest party of the year. Grey Cup! I’m not a big fus-boll fan by any means so I hope the fans don’t drill me with questions like “Hey I hate how Thompson fumbled the ball last week while Skafendee was on the bench whining about his broken ankle. They need a better line backer to deal the yardage”. I don’t think that made any sense at all but you get the point. I know virtually nothing about football. All I know is work is gonna be rough on Monday.

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Darcy Whyte had messaged me awhile ago about starting a jQuery meetup. A few days later he had everything set up and organized. The information is below.

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It’s the day after submitting www.taxime.ca to www.feedmyapp.com and the traffic has exploded! *BOOM KABOOOOOOOM*

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I wasn’t doing very much yesterday afternoon - went to the gym - that’s about it. After I came home I remembered I had this idea a little while back to do a small widget for estimating taxi cab fares.

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I’m flying home today to Regina, SK for a family reunion and what not. I caught the bus to the airport this morning and arrived 25 minues before my flight was leaving. I went to check in and the robotic man said “We’re sorry sir, you cannot get on that flight anymore. You’ll have to find a different one”. (more…)

At work today we had an issue with Thickbox for jQuery displaying “Image 2 of 3″ when it was actually “Image 1 of 3″. Let me describe the scenario we had it set up in.

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I was getting kind of frustrated with some of the lack of Database CSV scripts I was finding. None of them really did what I wanted - of course not every script out there is suited for your own personal needs. I thought I would whip something up that’s pretty flexible when thrown into various situations.

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It’s Sunday afternoon and it is probably the hottest day Ottawa has been hit with so far. So I went out to The Bay, bought an air conditioner, sat on my computer and hacked away. I decided to make a small jQuery plugin that provides an unobtrusive approach to using images as checkboxes and radio buttons. I had seen a few out there that just take care of the checkboxes and that don’t work at all with labels. I figured that I can whip something up that might help a lot of people out. The script figures out whether it’s a checkbox or a radio button - you just have to provide some styling info.

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