Category Archives: Projects

ALARMd is now on Github

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 21, 2010
In an effort to mindlessly copy what everyone else on the internet is doing keep current on the latest and greatest Source Code Management tools, I decided that it would be good practice to move my open source project ALARMd (as seen on Lifehacker) from Google Code to Github. Feel free to fork/contribute at your [...]
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Maiden Voyage of the DOM Sailbloat

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 19, 2010
As many of you may already know, my day job includes managing a large and complex enterprise jQuery-based user interface component library. It’s used by all new web applications at the company, which boasts over an IT department of approximately 1500 people and hundreds of web applications. Needless to say, I get a fair volume [...]
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The “24″ Clock on ALARMd

By Zach Leatherman | Published: January 24, 2010
If you’re only using @font-face for titles and text, you’re missing out on a whole wealth of use cases that have yet to be explored. For instance, I created a very simple 7 Segment Display Numeric font to be used for a skin on alarmd.com and changed the color using nothing but CSS to create [...]
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ALARMd Unix Time Format for 1234567890 Day

By Zach Leatherman | Published: February 13, 2009
In honor of 1234567890 day, I’ve added the Unix time format to ALARMd. Hit Options, then the Clock Format tab to change to Unix Time. Enjoy!
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Scare Your Visitors with this JavaScript Gravatar Plugin

By Zach Leatherman | Published: January 8, 2009
Here's a use case. An unregistered visitor visits your blog, and decides that your content is so good that it merits a comment! Congratulations, you've fooled them! But since they're leaving a comment, why not show them a preview of their gravatar?
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ALARMd is a Google Code Project

By Zach Leatherman | Published: October 8, 2008
I received a request this week to participate in development of the internet alarm clock I developed awhile back called ALARMd. It has gone through two major revisions, and my interest in contributing additional source code to the project is waning. I’ve got other projects. So, I’ve decided to publish it to Google Code. I [...]
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Fight Registrastination. Register to vote!

By Zach Leatherman | Published: September 7, 2008
Apologies to international readers, this spam message is intended for citizens of the USA only. Thanks for understanding. Have a friend that hasn’t registered to vote yet? Do your civic duty by guilting them into action. Help them fight registrastination by sharing a link to a big bold deadline. Fight Registrastination. Register to vote NOW! [...]
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ALARMd 2 Beta, with Google Calendar Integration

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 6, 2008
Take a look: ALARMd 2 Beta Update: added Metric and Unit Circle time formats. I know, some of you are reading this and thinking to yourself — genital herpes is more appealing than yet another online alarm clock. But to that I say, congratulations, that’s one of the new features in ALARMd 2! Why did [...]
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