Archive for February, 2010

Home automation via iPhone

When we had our house built a little over 10 years ago, we had a home automation system installed, which included a Lutron Homeworks lighting control system. This meant every light circuit in the house was wired to Lutron’s controller, which could be programmed with their custom Windows application. The installation company distributed multi-button keypads […]

LRR.org Version 5

This month I completed a major software development and web design milestone: launching a completely re-designed and re-built web site for Labrador Retriever Rescue. I’ve been the webmaster for LRR for around eight years, and this is my fourth major revision for the site, both from a design and software standpoint. This revision took about […]

Automatically activating a form field with JavaScript

I’m a firm believer that software developers should do everything possible to make the end-user experience as simple as possible—in other words, make the software do the hard work so I don’t have to. You probably come across negative examples of this all the time without thinking twice: the web form that requires you to […]