A Review of the Preview of the Previewer

A few weeks ago I journalled about The Previewer, a little jquery/ajax plugin I was writing for displaying images on my current and any future websites.

It's safe to say I have gone down the rabbit hole on this one. Every time I think I've almost finished it I discover with glee other possible functionality or enhancements. I keep delving into new and foreign areas of web development that in the past I've only gazed at wistfully out the window of the bus on the information super highway. Earlier this year I worked with varying enthusiasm on a different and entirely new web application that my attention may soon return to. However, there's something about programming when its key functionality is to propagate my ego that really lights my coding fire. Not to mention just how excited I am about other things. Like, I have started writing Ajax services, discovered just how friggin pro it is to use icons instead of links/buttons, started writing dynamic (and secured) CSS and Javascript in PHP and I'm now starting to wield jQuery around like an eight year old with a chainsaw. I even spent the last two days trying to understand the Facebook Javascript API to add a feature I think will probably never even be used! But, if someone asks me later 'can you write something that implements the Facebook SDK?' I can smile and say 'I sure can!' (Have they changed it in the last week?)

So the previewer grows more awesome by the day. Oh, and I also created a development environment and everything for it on my local PC, so it's no longer online. Until it's ready, you'll just have to share in the excitement of me learning lots of new technical skills. Speaking of which, I also learnt today that you can cook bacon in a sandwich press.