Archive for the ‘Random’ Category

New Site: Scrabble Word Machine - Cheater Cheaters

2
Sep 2009

I made this new site Scrabble Word Machine, which is a Scrabble Word Builder. This handy tool will help all of you Scrabble players build words when you get stumped. The tool goes as far as to match your tiles with letters on the board if you’d like to find out which words you could use in a certain spot.

Have fun all my cheaters out there! I know I’ll be using it!

Old Flash Video I made - William Hung

12
Aug 2009

Anybody remember William Hung? The crazy Asian guy that probably holds the crown for the worst / funniest American Idol audition of all time? I made a cartoon video of this in flash right after his audition became famous. This was probably the first animation I made in flash, not bad for learning, eh?



I even dug up the actual video so you can see my inspiration:



iMeetzu Widget - Chat with a stranger on your own website

10
Aug 2009

I got a great idea from a fellow webmaster this weekend to make a widget out of my iMeetzu application. What a great way to spread the word around about the site. I spent a better part of my day Saturday making a lightweight version of iMeetzu that anyone can put on their site with just a small snippet of code. I actually have put this widget here on my blog as well. You can check it out on the right side of the page. The widget is integrated with the main system, so you could potentially chat from the widget with another user on the main site. Also you could be chatting through the widget from two separate websites. My hope is that the widget will get picked up by a lot of bloggers and help iMeetzu grow considerably.

Visit the iMeetzu Widget page to put iMeetzu on your site. The widget allows an adjustable size to fit nicely into your site.

Frustration Gates v.2 - iMeetzu Promo

7
Aug 2009

I did a quick remake of my frustration gates flash game to promo my iMeetzu.com project. The game is a bit harder in this version. You have to get the box back and forth instead of just across the screen. Flash games are very commonly ’stolen’ from game websites and put on thousands of small sites. Some game developer hate this, but I’m using it to my advantage with the obvious iMeetzu.com promotion in the game.



Have fun!

Frustration Gates Flash Game

7
Aug 2009

I made this flash game here. Simple and challenging. GOOD LUCK




How far did you make it??

Welcome to my blog

18
Nov 2008

Look no further, ya found me.  My name is Josh Marthaller and I’m a professional web developer. I’ve been building websites for at least 10 years now.  I put this blog up here to ramble about random topics mostly related to web development, but don’t be suprised to see some other topics pop up.  My skills are mostly related to programming so you’ll see a lot of topics about that as well. I’m also very interested in the business and marketing end of websites, so I’d say I am a pretty well rounded web developer.

This blog is hosted at: Hostamina Which is the web hosting company that my friend Aaron and I started in the summer of 2008.  Between the two of us we own too many websites, or projects as I like to call them because they are not complete, yet.

Right now I’m in my senior year of college at the University of Oregon. I’m currently an accounting major and CIT minor, but who knows I may change it.