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Growth of Javascript frameworks March 5, 2009 0 Comments

With the growing adoption rate of Javascript frameworks such as jQuery and Prototype, some people wonder "Do I need to learn POJ (Plain Old Javascript) before I learn a framework?". If the question is "Do I need to?" the answer is no. If the question is "Should I?" I would say yes, if you've got the time and are ambitious to know what's happeni... Read more »

Oldies but goodies February 3, 2009 0 Comments

I was rummaging through some old hard drives and websites yesterday and found quite a gem. It's a slideshow of our band playing one of our first gigs. View the slideshow here The first set of 2005 was a show put on by Campbell Collegiate high school and contained a few other bands. The second set of 2005 was a when we played our dem... Read more »

Optimizing is always good January 24, 2009 0 Comments

I had some time today to re-visit some of the javascript on TaxiMe. I know it uses a lot of it. So here are some key things I've done to help bring down the load time: Use a javascript minifier: Since I load in about 4 javascript files I figured i should probably serve them up as small as possible. I went out digging and found a PHP javascrip... Read more »

TaxiMe goes mobile! January 19, 2009 2 Comments

This weekend I had spent a lot of time on TaxiMe and am proud to say, we support all mobiles! If you go to http://www.taxime.ca/ on your mobile you will be redirected to http://m.taxime.ca/. I have also added a subdomain for each city TaxiMe supports - this has helped tremendously in appearing near the top in Google. Anyways, I've already repe... Read more »

TaxiMe gets a Christmas present from CBC Regina December 29, 2008 1 Comment

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... Read more »

TaxiMe featured in the Metro and soon to be CBC Ottawa! December 19, 2008 0 Comments

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 a... Read more »

Grey Cup in Montreal and a Moostashio! November 19, 2008 0 Comments

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... Read more »

jQuery Meetup on Tuesday October 26, 2008 5 Comments

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. This Tuesday we’re starting a regular meet up for people that are interested in jQuery. This week we will just meet for an hour or so but in the future we will have some 2m informal light... Read more »

TaxiMe getting good press! September 9, 2008 1 Comment

It's the day after submitting www.taxime.ca to www.feedmyapp.com and the traffic has exploded! *BOOM KABOOOOOOOM* A few of the following sites have written kind words toward the little web app DownloadSquad.com Anyways.us KillerStartups.com FeedMyApp.com tmblg.com As said before, we are integrating a mobile version shortly as I have... Read more »

Presenting: TaxiMe.ca August 24, 2008 9 Comments

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. So I threw some images together, got the google map integrated, bought the domain and voila! taxime.ca was born. Go and give it a sho... Read more »

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Hi interwebs! My name is Jordan Boesch and I like to dabble in various web technologies. My dabbling time usually consists of jQuery, WordPress and baking with CakePHP.