I'm a web-loving, webapp maker kinda guy. Here are a few things I have created for my employers, my freelancing projects and my own personal projects

Archive for the ‘Javascript’ Category

An Angular 4 (+Boostrap) web application I coded myself

See AnthonyPlaysFrisbee.com

This is a fun website I created for myself and my frisbee teammates to consolidate all our video highlights and stats onto one web app. This web application was coded by myself using Angular 4 and the css framework, Bootstrap. The skills I used for this website includes: Typescript, Javascript, jQuery, CSS, Photoshop, JSON API Rest Calls.

The AnthonyPlaysFrisbee.com website shows the power and speed of Angular. On the left side bar is a list of dropdown select boxes, when a dropdown item is selected, the filtered data is shared across all the other webpages(components) as well. (ie, the filter selections do not have to be reselected if you were to leave the home page)

Some of the Angular-specific terminology I used in this app: Observables, Pipes, Components, Routers, ChartJS, Behavior Subject (to pass data between components).

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Angular, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Typescript, Video

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Redesigning a website for better conversion rates

Sometimes less is better for increasing the conversion rates of a website.   At Findlaw, we redesigned the Lawyers.FindLaw.com website to a more modern and more mobile-friendly website.   In our user tests (we sent half the users to the newly redesign and the other half to the old website), we found the new website were generating better conversions.

I was one of the Front End developers who worked on the redesign of the Lawyers.Findlaw.com website. My task role involve the creating the main search box on the main page of all the websites involved. This javascript-heavy component used ajax techniques to dynamically populate the acceptable search terms and locations (from Google Maps).  In this project, the website was based on JSP and XSL templates and we used the Zurb Foundation as the base of the CSS classes.

 

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CSS, Javascript, JSP, Responsive Web Design

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My new Fitbit Ionic watchface

When Fitbit purchased Pebble in early 2017, I had a feeling it was to woo pebble developers to a potentially new Fitbit smartwatch. I worked with me. I bought the new smartwatch, Fitbit Ionic, on the first day of its retail release.

In my spare time, I play around with the Fitbit SDK to create apps and watchfaces for the Ionic. The Fitbit SDK is based on Javascript and SVG. Although there are some limitations to the hardware and SDK, it’s been fun to play around with creating new watchfaces. Above is one of the watchfaces I created.

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CSS, Graphics, Javascript, smartwatch, SVG

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A Webscraping WordPress Plugin

I wanted to create a sports-related website with a custom-made WordPress plugin and show game schedules for my timezone.  So, I created Gamewinner.tv .  It is a fully automated sports streaming website showing live streaming games ranging from football games to soccer games to even Ultimate Frisbee games.

I coded the WordPress plugin used in the website to automatically scrape other websites for streaming links and game schedules. I also added Javascript code to dynamically display the correct game start times based on the end user’s timezone. 

What helps is there are niche sport leagues hoping to get more exposure through streaming their games live for free.  If you’re looking to watch athletes dive for a frisbee, this website is your you!

UPDATE (2017): planning to sell this site

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Content Management System, CSS, Graphics, Javascript, PHP, Wordpress

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SVG Charts in Angular 2

VIEW DEMO (source code – d3 and svg prototype used for Angular 2 app; source code – dynamically load d3 chart with json data)

I have created more charts than the number of fingers I have.  I have also created various charts using different technologies and libraries. This time, I get to dabble in Angular 2 and create charts using SVG and Javascript.   It’s more time consuming to create SVG charts, but you do get more flexibility to make charts that don’t exist in any of the other charting frameworks.

 

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Angular, Javascript, SVG, Typescript

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The Dolan Law Firm and WordPress Plugins

If you ever listen to the local SF Bay Area sports radio station, KNBR 680, you may often hear a commercial bit with the slogan, “The best lawyers you hope to never need” and their website, http://DolanLawFirm.com. Well, it is me who created the Dolan Law Firm website!

The law firm had requested to move their html-based website from the Firmsite Publisher platform to the WordPress platform.  This was a monumental task because this Law firm had over 10K articles and 200+ categories to migrate over to WordPress.

I was the main developer for this project and with the help of an intern, we were able to complete this project in 3 months.   Using my prior WordPress experience, I found ways to reduce the development time by creating scripts to automate certain tasks.

In addition to migrating the articles and categories, I was also responsible styling the layout, photoshopping all graphics and icons, as well as code additional WordPress plugins.

 

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Content Management System, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Wordpress

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Drag-and-Drop Functionality for Content Management System

VIEW DEMO (prototype source code – jQueryUI to drag and drop elements into placeholders)

Firmsite Publisher is the in-house content management system used by the Thomson Rueters Findlaw division to create websites for law firms and lawyers. Over 10,000 websites are created through this online-based system.

In one of the biggest additions to Firmsite Publisher, my team members and I developed the new feature to add Drag-and-Drop capabilities. This feature is to help our content authors to customize the look of a law firm’s website easily.  I was tasked with all the Front-end development responsibilities.

The core technologies used for this project: Java, JSP, Javascript and jQuery UI’s drag-n-drop library.  My team members and I successfully complete this feature to rave reviews.

 

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Content Management System, HTML, HTML5, Javascript, jQuery

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Responsive Web Design for a dashboard

Screencast shows the same web-dashboard displayed on three different devices – MacBook, iPad, and iPhone

VIEW DEMO (source code – Responsive web design with charts in Sencha EXTJS; source code – A plot chart using HighChart javascript library)

With the increasing popularity of iPads and iPhones, I was asked me to create a web-based dashboard to provide an optimal viewing experience with all their devices – iPads, iPhones, and Macbooks using just a single-code base. I was able to achieve these requirements using responsive web design techniques with HTML5, javascript and CSS3.

The dashboard contains several distinct widgets:
1.) Multiple carousels (swiping of data) responds to both mouse and touch gestures to swipe the card to view additional sets of data.
2.) A slider to select the date and time range. The slider transforms into the standard iPhone time picker when the web-dashboard is viewed on an iPhone.
3.) Sophisticated charts embedded inside of other charts.
4.) Grids to display data
5.) Persistent Web Design techniques to retain user’s viewing settings

In addition to javascript and CSS3. I used the following technologies and plugins:

  • Bryntum Scheduler and Gantt Charts
  • Sencha EXTJS 4.0
  • jQuery
  • jQuery.ContentCarousel plugin
  • Developr theming
  • glDatePicker
  • jQRangeSlider
  • jQuery.blockUI plugin
  • mobiScroll

View the Web Dashboard

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HTML5, Javascript, jQuery, mobile/smartphone app, Responsive Web Design, Sencha ExtJS

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My Toddler Can Learn Names

My Child Can Learn Names

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VIEW DEMO (source code – Javascript DOM animations and movements)

I have been buying a lot of apps from the AppStore and Google Play Market for my young son. Then I thought, “Hey, why don’t I make my own app?!”

In my spare time, I developed an app to teach my 2-year old son the names of his family members and favorite cartoon characters.

There are apps to teach your toddler animal names, colors, shapes, vehicles… but what about apps to teach your toddler the names of friends and loved ones? This app can teach your toddler the names of his/her family and friends in a fun and easy to play game.

Download the game from Google Play or Play the game online

This educational game was created using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Javascript and a plugin to stretch images.

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Game, Graphics, HTML, HTML5, Javascript, jQuery, mobile/smartphone app, Responsive Web Design

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Trees! Trees! Trees! But not the kind of forest you’re thinking of

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VIEW DEMO (source code – display of tree nodes and child node expansion)

Normal people think of trees as those green living things with branches and leaves. Computer Programmers think of trees as something completely different. (although computer programmers should be considered normal people too).

I made this mult-tree webpage for using jQuery and the plugin treeTable. Using JSON data from a webservice, I generate a table using the old <table><tr><td> tags with their corresponding parent ids. Then I plug in the treeTable — and POOOOOF — the tree appears. It’s that easy.

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HTML, Javascript, jQuery

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Web-based Compare/Copy tool


(actual data has been removed and replaced with fake data)

VIEW DEMO (source code – duplicating form field values and DOM contents)
This is one of the many projects I worked on at Apple. I made this web app for Apple using Javascript and jQuery.

If you’re familiar with programming and doing a code-difference on the changes you’ve made to your code, you’ll probably notice some similarities to this web-based tool. This tool basically shows the difference between two sets of data and allows you to copy one set of data to the other. There’s more to it, but let’s not bore you too much.

And oh! If you resize your browser, the web app will resize itself to use the most space as possible… because I just hate white empty space.

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HTML, Javascript, jQuery

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The Jeremy Lin Video Game for your phone, tablet and desktop!


It’s been awhile since I posted something I’ve done. I’ve been doing amazing things at Apple Inc, which has kept me busy. Awhile back, I did begin a project to help me learn all of HTML5 features. I decided to make a Jeremy Lin app that incorporates all of the new and cool HTML5 features. I also wanted this app/website to be responsive. This app should work and look nice on all devices – desktop, smartphone, tablet. Here is my excerpt from the Google Play store,

This is the Jeremy Lin Linsanity Video Game. You decide which play to make and watch your stats increase. Watch hundreds with highlight clips of Jeremy Lin’s NBA career. This app also includes Jeremy Lin’s twitter feed, real-time stats, youtube highlight clips, the Houston Rocket’s schedule, fan photos, news, biography, etc.

Play the Jeremy Lin video game from your desktop, smartphone, or tablet here

Download the Jeremy Lin video game from the Google Play store

List of technologies used in this App
jQuery Mobile – the framework to lay out the pages and dialog box
CSS3 – renders the elements to fit into the various devices
HTML5 Video – no plugins required to view the Jeremy Lin videos and is supported on most platforms with the latest browsers
jPlayerPlaylist – a playlist plugin to watch html 5 videos
Canvas – plots the shots taken by Lin onto the basketball court
Localstorage – keeps track of the player’s stats and saves the stats even after the browser is closed
jQueryTweet plugin – displays the twitter feed from Jeremy Lin’s twitter page
Google News – rss feed of the latest news on Jeremy Lin
jQueryWowSlider – plugin to display the sliding images of JLin fans.
Youtube – video site to watch JLin videos

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Game, HTML, HTML5, Javascript, jQuery, jQueryMobile, mobile/smartphone app

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Facebook login integration, Paypal transactions, Google language translations, Javascript snippets, Memberships

Have you ever wanted to learn how to invest in stocks? If yes, you’ll need to learn chinese 🙂

So a couple months ago, a former work colleague and friend asked me to start the development of a website for him. He’s taken a successful English-based website and created a website for Chinese-speaking investors. His website is now live at www.5168options.com

His website is basically a free and paid membership-based content management system. Users who pay for the membership are given access to highly informative and frequently updated content. He needed a quick, yet working mock-up of the site to present to his inner circle.

I created his website using Dreamweaver as the developer environment. I included the Facebook login integration into the site for a more user-friendly experience. The paid transactions are done with Paypal’s e-commerce Merchant Services. The language translation between Chinese Simplified to Chinese Traditional was done with Google’s Website Translator. ASP and Access database stores the user login data and memberships. And the stock ticker is simply a javascript snippet.

update: due to time contraints I have relieved myself from the day-to-day maintenance of the site.

This is a test

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ASP Classic, Database, Javascript

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My Phở app is now available for all mobile devices

Everything you need for the delicious Vietnamese noodle soup, Phở, is in this app.   Quickly get a list of all the Pho restaurants near you and plot them all on a map. Or enter in a city name to get all the Pho places in that city. Also included is a recipe to make your own Pho. View the photo gallery of all the Pho toppings you usually get in a restaurant – brisket, steak, fatty brisket, tai, chin, gau, pho ga, etc.  Finally, an app my parents would use.

For Google Android users, download the app in the Google Play store here and install for free,

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anthonyhoang.phoapp

For Apple iPhone users, use the Safari browser to access the web app here,

http://ahhdesig.w01.wh-2.com/PhoApp/

This app was developed using Sencha Touch 2.0.   Sencha Touch 2.0 is a javascript framework using HTML5/javascript technologies.  The data is taken from Yelp’s Webservice API.  I added Google’s geolocation APIs to plot the restaurants on the map.  The images for the Pho toppings were taken with my Canon t2i and photoshopped by me.

update: There are some pros and cons to using Sencha Touch over other mobile-specific frameworks like jQueryMobile.  I’m currently working on another smartphone app using jQuery Mobile and will have it available soon.

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Graphics, HTML5, Javascript, mobile/smartphone app, Sencha Touch

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My mobile app on the iPhone, iPad, Chrome, Android, Safari.

Task list mobile app on the iPhone, iPad, Safari, Chrome.

Realization is ready to enter the smart phone app world.  Luckily, I’ve been experimenting with it for a while already.  The company now needs to put the task list module of our web-based project management application on the all smartphone devices; iPhones, iPads, Androids, Blackberries, etc.

To get this started, I created a working prototype of our task list with Sencha Touch. Sencha Touch is an HTML5 framework, which makes it possible to use the same code to work on all mobile devices with a webkit browser. This prototype works on the iPhone, iPad, Google Chrome, Android and Safari. The app looks and feels more like a native app than a mobile website.

This app accesses a webservice API.  I created the webservice API with ASP.Net (asmx file). The webservice returns data in json format and then takes this json data and puts the it in a store to display the list.

*update: I see great potential using Sencha Touch as the programming framework of choice when creating mobile apps for all the mobile devices.

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ASP.Net, HTML5, Javascript, mobile/smartphone app, Sencha Touch

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My UI design has been given a patent!

Patent

The most commonly used feature of our web-based software is officially granted a patent today. I was one of three developers who worked on this feature. My responsibility was to come up with the UI design and develop it. The summary on the patent says,

A method on a computer for providing critical chain-based project management is disclosed. The method includes receiving at least one project plan for a project comprising a plurality of task and calculating a task priority for each...

The summary goes on and on… in other words, I created something very complex and we don’t want anyone else stealing our ideas.

My patents,

*update: If you want to read the entire summary, I now have a framed plaque with the patent to show you! Yay!

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ASP Classic, Database, HTML, Javascript

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ChartFX can’t do it? Don’t worry, I can.

The chart is an image, the data grid is html

SoftwareFX’s ChartFX component is very useful in displaying so many different charts and in so many different ways. However, the current version of ChartFX lacks the ability to display a grid of data alongside with the bars in the chart. Instead of whining and crying about it, I came up with a solution.

Using HTML, I overlayed a grid on top of a chart and I was able to display the  grid of data, coinciding with the chart’s bars. With some improvisation and hard work, this idea worked like a charm.

*update: The newer version of ChartFX, ChartFX.Net, now comes with a grid data, but doesn’t work very smoothly. I created another version of this chart data grid for the .net version with scrolling data.

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ASP Classic, HTML, Javascript

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A web-based chart made only with HTML? No way?

This chart was made with only HTML!

What do you do when you need to make a report with bar charts, columns of data, panning dates, expandable sub-rows, and absolutely with no plugins are allowed? You do it in HTML, of course. This… was my task.

Because we have clients who are part of the US government and have very strict rules on what is allowed to be installed on government computers, I had to come up with a way to fulfilled specs without the use of any plugins. I was able to accomplish this feat with alot of DHTML and Javascript. I don’t believe there is any other report on the planet that looks like this.

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ASP Classic, HTML, Javascript

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Buy your handbags from Adelyn!

Adelyn's website

Looking for a beautiful hand-made handbag? Get it from Adelyn Designs! Choose from a variety of different designs and sizes and Adelyn will make your bag upon completion of your order.

This is a low-traffic, limited budget shopping website. It is limited to a webserver with no ASP hosting. The website was created using solely HTML. Paypal was the online payment transaction of choice.

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eCommerce, Graphics, HTML, Javascript

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Tree navigation done with javascript

Tree structure

Realization’s Concerto application is a web-base project management software that is packed  full of configurable options, so much so it’s impossible for a normal human being to remember them all. There are configurations to change every text, to set the default sorting criteria, the columns to show on a particular report, the columns to show on a print preview screen, the default filter selections, and so on. You get the point.

To navigate through all these different configurations for each and every report, I created a tree navigation system using Javascript. The tree navigation allows users to easily access a report’s configuration based on the user’s knowledge of the report’s location in the web-app. The display and saving of the configurations was done with ASP.

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ASP Classic, Javascript

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Abovelearning Learning Center web application

Agilent's Learning center app

Abovelearning’s Learning Center web application is a learning management system for large companies who wish to train their employees with new skills. The Learning Center makes it possible for an employee to search and register for training classes. Administrators can monitor training requirements for employees.

I was part of the team who worked on Learning Center. I was the developer responsible for front end changes. While most of the backend work was done in VB code, I coded the front end using mainly JavaScript, HTML and ASP.

*update: Unfortunately, the dot.com bust of 2001 was too strong for Abovelearning.

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ASP Classic, HTML, Javascript

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VSA@UCI First Website

Vietnamese Student Assocation website

The Vietnamese Student Association’s president asked members if any of us would like to volunteer to create a website for the club. Excited to show off my new HTML skills, I quickly volunteered.  I wanted to make the first ever VSA website at the University of California at Irvine! The specs were quite simple – make a website to let viewers see the calendar of events, the name list of club officers, and the club’s mission statement.

I created the website using HTML. Javascript was used for the awesome mouse-over effects on the links (edit: hey, it was very cool at the time). And I crafted the graphics using Adobe Photoshop.

VSAUCI.com
*update: The VSA-UCI website has seen many new students and changes since it’s original creation.

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Graphics, HTML, Javascript

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