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You can reach me by email via info at encytemedia dot(.) com or by telepathy if your familiar with the techniques. I receive a plethora of email, so I may not be able to respond to every one.

Want to hire me?

I craft experiences—from pixels to paragraphs. I’m handy with Photoshop, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS, and on occasions Ruby. If you’d like to hire me, you can do so over at Active Reload, LLC..

If you’ve got an Open Source project that you think I’ll be interested in, feel free to get in touch. I do what I can to contribute to Open Source projects, but my time is lacking these days, so I can’t contribute to every person that contacts me. I’ve found myself to be particularly interested in RubyCocoa and Cocoa in general these days.

Justin is the Design Director for entp, the company behind Lighthouse, Warehouse, and Mephisto. You can check out his shiny stuff for proof of his super powers.

Beautifully simple issue tracking and project management. With a beautiful Mac-like interface, email and subversion integration, Lighthouse is the perfect project management tool. We took the suck out of issue tracking.
Web-based Subversion Interface. Manage Subversion permissions and browse through your changesets and files with ease. Warehouse takes the complicated and mundane tasks of Subversion and makes it easy.

May06

With the release of Opera’s DragonFly, IE 8’s Developer tools, Safari’s/Webkit’s Web Inspector and Drosera; and the Grand Daddy of them all, Firebug – we’ve now come full circle.
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Feb08

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DoubleClick and Define using Apple Dictionary


var selection;
if(window.getSelection)
  selection = window.getSelection();
else if(document.selection)
  selection = document.selection.createRange();

document.observe("dblclick", function() {
  if(navigator.userAgent.include("Macintosh")) {
      location.href = "dict://" + selection;
    }
});

A quick (and probably dirty) Prototype-based hack allowing Mac users to get the definition of any word by double clicking it.

Feb08

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A strftime for Prototype


Object.extend(Date.prototype, {
  strftime: function(format) {
    var day = this.getUTCDay(), month = this.getUTCMonth();
    var hours = this.getUTCHours(), minutes = this.getUTCMinutes();
    function pad(num) { return num.toPaddedString(2); };

    return format.gsub(/\%([aAbBcdDHiImMpSwyY])/, function(part) {
      switch(part[1]) {
        case 'a': return $w("Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat")[day]; break;
        case 'A': return $w("Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday")[day]; break;
        case 'b': return $w("Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec")[month]; break;
        case 'B': return $w("January February March April May June July August September October November December")[month]; break;
        case 'c': return this.toString(); break;
        case 'd': return this.getUTCDate(); break;
        case 'D': return pad(this.getUTCDate()); break;
        case 'H': return pad(hours); break;
        case 'i': return (hours === 12 || hours === 0) ? 12 : (hours + 12) % 12; break;
        case 'I': return pad((hours === 12 || hours === 0) ? 12 : (hours + 12) % 12); break;
        case 'm': return pad(month + 1); break;
        case 'M': return pad(minutes); break;
        case 'p': return hours > 11 ? 'PM' : 'AM'; break;
        case 'S': return pad(this.getUTCSeconds()); break;
        case 'w': return day; break;
        case 'y': return pad(this.getUTCFullYear() % 100); break;
        case 'Y': return this.getUTCFullYear().toString(); break;
      }
    }.bind(this));
  }
});

UPDATE: Bugs fixed. Thanks Andrew and Stephen

Also, some of my old and new code has been posted on GitHub. You might find something useful.

Feb04

A beautiful, organic animation by Flight404 created using Processing.

Processing in Action
Jan08

Aaron Patterson shows us how to define ruby methods which can be called from JavaScript using RKelly.
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Jan07

Dustin might not surprise you at your house with a book in hand, but he’ll damn sure send you his innermost fu in the form of a shiny yellow and black book. It’s an excellent read if you’re looking to put more funk in your functions and class in your classes. Check out “Pro JavaScript Design Patterns” by Dustin and Ross Harmes.

—I’m Justin Palmer and I approve this message.
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Dec23

IE 8 PAsses the Acid 2 Test for those not keeping tabs on things.
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Oct24

Mislav has written up an excellent overview on upgrading Radiant (which used 1.5) to Prototype 1.6. The article does a great job of showing how 1.6 is superior to 1.5.
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Oct19

According to the New York Times, the Daily Show Archives, with over 7,000 videos are online—free and searchable.
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Oct11

Telemarketer gets owned
Oct10

—Erik Kastner shows us how it’s done.

Making an iPhone app in about a minute
Oct09

Defining classes and inheritance in Prototype–Incase you’ve missed it, Prototype 1.6 has a new inheritance model.
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Aug21

Hurricane Dean’s projected path. The most awesomest hurricane ever.
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Aug07

How Ninjas Work

Who would’ve thought Howstuffworks would be able to uncover the secrets behind these illusive creatures.
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Jul27

Chuck Norris does not apply for jobs, jobs compete for Chuck Norris

—via Ajaxian
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