I thought it a quick post to let everyone know what’s up and what’s coming round the bend.

For the last few months, my time has mostly been taken up with Form Tools 2 and “real” work (meaning: PAID) for Encore Web Studios. Next Friday I’m moving back to Vancouver with my girlfriend, so the next week will probably be devoted mostly to packing, and the following week to unpacking. Ah, joy. Fingers crossed the car survives the drive from Saskatoon to BC. If it dies at some point, leaving us stranded with 3 cats and a hamster, we’re not going to be terribly thrilled…

I’m going to take a much-needed break from Form Tools 2 and work on some smaller projects for a little while. First, I’ll be releasing version 2.5 of my Really Simple Validation library as a Prototype and jQuery add-on. It’s such a useful, powerful script I’d like to see it being adopted more widely. I’m also improving the error display: right now it lets you assign styles directly to the error fields, which is ugly: it can override any styles already there. Now it will simply add/remove an error class. Much cleaner. The “Plain Vanilla” and Prototype versions are done; just grappling with the jQuery one.
Secondly, I’m well aware of the problems with version 1.7 of the Flash Image Scroller (thanks for all the emails & posts, guys! If I didn’t respond it’s simply because I have too much on my plate, not because I’m an unbelievable jerk). I’m going to go through everyone’s post in the comments and resolve them all. Plus I’m going to look into figuring out a way to add that mirroring effect I’ve seen in other, similar (non-free) tools.

Once I get back, I’ll be releasing the first version of some cardiography reporting software I’ve been working on with Joseph Lo since January of this year. It’s a lovely script: beautiful UI, clear and receptive, all in Ajax. I’m very pleased with it. It’ll be a free service for cardiologists, radiographers, doctors etc. to generate human-readable reports for CT Scans, Consultation exams and Holter reports. I’ll make another post when that goes live; I’m in the process of fixing up the remaining bugs, setting up the staging environment etc. – all the fun stuff you do prior to pushing live.

I’ve also been spending a little time on an Adobe AIR version of generatedata.com, but it’s been going very slowly. The SQL Lite stuff is bloody finicky and hard to debug.

Oh – and I’ve just wrapped up work for a Salvation Army website, probono.ca. I’m just doing the backend. I just heard that the Ontario branch of Salvation Army will be adopting it. Nice.

So yeah, pretty busy. Can’t wait to get back.