This is not a very serious website, obviously. It's mainly a place to plop links to stuff I'm doing for the department so others can easily see them. I figured I'd make it different, though, since all of the other chemistry sites I work on are so boring and serious. It does have a nicer layout than supersparky.com, as the sizes are relative so that it scales well. Doing supersparky with fixed widths was bad.
Check out the WISE Image Search Engine from my CSE 772 class. It's pretty nifty, although you'll definitely want to use VOX4 as your search algorithm. RGB16 was the first we developed, so it's the default, but it gives pretty terrible results. With this search engine, we do content based matching, which Google doesn't even do! (Although I expect they're working on something that'll slaughter this). The relevance feedback is my baby, and I really like how it turned out. Check out how you can drag the results into the feedback boxes to narrow the search (you'll need to click the "Relevance Feedback" link in the search box after doing a content based search).
People have started to find the timesheet calculator, which I didn't expect. If you're from outside of OSU and are using it, beware that it uses a funny set of rounding rules for the minutes that make absolutely no sense. OSU has a table that shows how to round your timesheet, and it seems almost arbitrary. For example, there is no way to get 1/10th of an hour. Anyway, just watch out for that. I wrote this for internal use, and suddenly I've started getting e-mails about it. I might work on a slightly better version with more generic rounding rules and some sanity checking and post it on a seperate page so that I'm providing a more solid product, sort of as my gift to the internet (apparently timesheet calculators are still a market with some growth potential -- I noticed that my competition is either shareware or seems harder to use). This was my first PHP project, so it was really just a way for me to learn in my free time, and not a Chemistry Dept. sponsored (or paid) project, so it has lots of room for improvement. Someone requested the source, so I shipped it out to him. I'll link it here, just in case anyone else wants it as a basis for a more comprehensive product. Please keep in mind that this was a first attempt at PHP, so it's really pretty icky. If you do anything cool with it, let me know. You're under no obligation, but I'd be happy to incorporate improvements back into my copy.
I also worked on the ViewPoint's website for Nikki. I'm definately not an art person, but the coding side went pretty well. The coolest thing isn't even publicly accessable, which is kind of sad. It has a PHP/MySQL survey that the students fill out to vote on their classmates, sign up for games and RSVP for the end of the quarter party. We mail links with a unique 20 character ID to each student, so that they can only vote once, can't RSVP eachother, etc. It's worked really well, and was a good learning tool for me.
Speaking of Nikki, I threw these up when I was home so she can check out the stuff my Mom got. Most of the wedding stuff is on this page she's been keeping up. Here is a picture of centerpieces for the shower. Here is a closeup of one of them.
I have a real website here if you really care, but haven't updated it for a long time.
These are the most common ones. I'll add to this list as I run into more.
When adding stuff to tables, make sure they alternate even, odd on their style. Otherwise you'll get rows of the same color against eachother.
