Scott’s Ramblings

The churches in my area recently held a camp meeting, and my brother was in charge of one of the kids’ groups. He asked me to design an attendance system that involved badges with the kids’ photos and a barcode on them. They would scan those badges to gain entry into the “top secret lab” and us staff would have an automatic, accurate attendance system. (From comments I heard after the event, this system also helped give our program an additional “quality polish” as the badges turned out well.)

The system that emerged is called BadgeEntry. After successfully using it for our event, I’ve decided to release it to the public.

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Here’s a method to easily insert footnotes into a website using Javascript. It degrades nicely when Javascript and/or CSS are not available for whatever reason (RSS springs to mind).

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I’m announcing a new website that I’ve made. The Sermon Illustration Library (RSS Feed) is a community-driven illustration source. This means that the more people participate, the better it will become. Of course, it is completely free.

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After meaning to do so for a very long time, I’ve finally updated my time calculator. The result is Time Calculator 2. It has a completely new, intuitive, user interface, as well as a new, better back end.

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I’ve written a Javascript bookmark that allows the user to find HTML elements with a given ID. This is handy for debugging HTML code. I’ve tested it in Firefox 1.0.4, but it should work in any Firefox/Mozilla version or any recent version of other browsers that allow Javascript bookmarks. This script doesn’t work in Internet Explorer.

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I’ve written a Javascript function that transparently hides your e-mail address from spambots—provided that spambots don’t execute Javascript. It doesn’t impact the end user in most cases. (This is a cross-post from my website.)

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