Sometimes I need to do something what is not useful at all, just for the fun of it. Someone plays World of Warcraft as a hobby, someone listens to music, drinks, draws.. whatever. I make animations in javascript. It’s half fun and half learning. I can try new things, I can experiment, discover …and what …
Author Archives: David Votrubec
HistoryGraph – Introduction
At IPO48 2011 in Prague I introduced my idea of HistoryGraph – web based educational app displaying historical events sorted by topic in interactive timelines. The idea did not get enough people to start up at IPO48, in fact there was only me in the team and the minimum was 3 people 🙂 I have …
Circus Cermaque
February, the last month of winter, is the worst one. I am tired of winter, of the ever clouded sky, of lack of sunshine. And in these grey days I have met by chance three shining guys. At first all I could hear was distant sound of clarinet. I came closer and saw these guys …
jQuery datepicker improved
I like jQuery’s datepicker a lot, but I miss two things – one is some kind of mask on the input field so I can write date directly without worrying about the correct date format, and the second is customisable trigger (the thing you click on to toggle the calendar widget 🙂 ) Masked input …
IPO48 – (personal) summary
There was a big event on 11-13.2.2010 in Prague called IPO48. One hundred people gathered there to compete who has the best idea for a startup. One had to explain his idea in 90sec long “elevator speech” in front of a jury and his peers in order to get their attention and recruit a workforce …
Why I love my work
I consider myself lucky to have work that I love. I work as Javascript / C# developer for a company where I can be creative, I can try new technologies and constantly learn new stuff. In short: I grow, I develop myself. That’s great. I left my previous post not just because of low salary, …
I’m going to IPO48 Prague
I have just learned about IPO48 and I am very excited about it. It is a 48 (!) hours long hackaton where people gather to form teams and deliver functional app prototypes. It is a great opportunity to meet creative innovative people, make contacts with investors and start something new. This is my startup idea …
Fun with tooltips on a timeline
This is a fun script I created during my idle hours while at previous employer. I wanted to somehow mimic comix-like conversation but on a single image only. It was just for fun, but it can be however used to do something more useful;) What it basically does is that it displays tooltips in a …
jQuery.durationpicker plugin
[Important Notice: I’ve discovered some bug in demo of durationPicker. It runs correctly only in FF. I will fix it soon and notify you here.] Have you ever looked at Googles’s (excellent) calendar app and wished that you had the ‘event planing widget’ in your web form? Well, here is my own version, a …
console.log() problem solved
console.log(), console.debug().. my two favourite helpers. If I need check whether my jquery selector returns what I expect it to or just to check how some variable changes its value during script execution I often use console. It’s great tool. Google Chrome provides it by default, Firefox only when you have Firebug turned on and …