Richard’s Corner

Graph It! Re-Branded, Employment Graphs Added

Posted on 30. Aug, 2009 by Richard.

On November 18, 2008, I released an application that allowed users to graph over 200 years of national debt data.

People seemed to like it, so a few months ago, I decided to start working on a second application for graphing unemployment data.  I finished it pretty quickly, and I was ready to release it, but then I had a thought.  Why not write a single application to graph both sets of data, and re-brand it as something more generic.  I decided to move forward with the idea, and “Graph It!” was born.

Feel free to try it out, and let me know what you think!
http://graphit.softworksdevelopment.com

I have some pretty ambitious ideas for improving Graph It!, including more data sets and additional reporting options, so please check back often.

Continue Reading

Weekend Update

Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by Richard.

SEGA Fanatic Redesign

For those of you who don’t know, I run a SEGA fan site called SEGA Fanatic. The site has been in desperate need of a makeover for quite some time, and I finally got around to doing it. I started with a WordPress theme I purchased from WooThemes.com called “Fresh News” and modified it to suit my needs.Let me know what you think of the new design.

I would love to hear your comments, criticisms, suggestions, etc…

No Video Review Yet

No, your eyes are not deceiving you. It has been almost two weeks since my last post, and I still haven’t posted my first video review. I wrote a review of “Slumdog Millionaire” that I plan to film, but I haven’t had the time. I’m not making any promises, but I will do my best to get it up soon.

Continue Reading

Netflix Instant Watch Search

Posted on 03. Jan, 2009 by Richard.

To put it simply, I love Netflix.  When I talk about Netflix with other people, I am often accused of being a company representative because I rarely have a bad thing to say about the service.  That being said, I do have one complaint.  I love the Instant Watch feature, but finding titles to watch is very cumbersome.  Browsing through by genre is easy enough, but searching by actor, director or title results in a list that combines DVD and Instant Watch titles.

To improve my own Netflix experience, I built a search engine that searches Instant Watch titles exclusively.  Keeping it updated is a bit of a pain, but it has made searching for Instant Watch titles a lot less painful.  Since it helped me so much, I decided to make it available for all to use.  Here’s the link:

http://netflix.softworksdevelopment.com

Let me know what you think.  If you find any inconsistencies, or you can think of any ways to improve the site, feel free to leave a comment.  Happy searching!

Continue Reading

U.S. National Debt Graph

Posted on 18. Nov, 2008 by Richard.

Have you ever wanted to see a graphical representation of how screwed we are as a nation?  Well, I wrote an application that does just that.  With a few mouse clicks, you can see for yourself how we ended up more than $10 trillion dollars in debt.

http://dev.softworksdevelopment.com/nationaldebt/

I downloaded the data from Treasury Direct, and wrote the application using Adobe Flex 2, MySQL and AMFPHP.

Continue Reading