Total Brain Dump

My blog is now at: http://chrisjacob.posterous.com

Teaching kids HTML, CSS & JavaScript. Interactive tutorials, P2P mentoring & Social hub.

https://github.com/chrisjacob/firemonkey

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” - Confucius

My 10 PeepCode credits gone in a flash! Can’t to watch these screencasts :-)

• Capistrano 2
• Advanced Command Line
• Meet the Command Line
• Git
• jQuery Ajax
• Meet jQuery
• Rails 2 from Scratch Part II
• Rails 2 from Scratch Part I
• Ruby 1.9 Part II
• Ruby 1.9 Part I

1. Take screenshots of each of your iPhone home screens.
2. Upload them to the site
3. Enter username, email & pass for basic user account - incase you want to maintain your account latter.
4. “free tag” yourself / your phone… My tags would be: male, 24, coffs harbour, nsw, Australia, web developer, games, productivity, utilities
5. Your tags will help you find similar people, which may lead to discovering some interesting apps!

Disasters like the recent earth quake in Haiti seem to be happening all the more frequently… Appeals for donations are broadcast accross the news. Of the percentage of people that ‘regularly’ donate to these appeals, do you think they would benefit from a more automated system? Remember - time is critical!

1. Create user account
2. Add money to your Donation Pool from Credit Card, Bpay, Paypal, etc
3. Select Auto Donation ammount for when disaster strikes - default $10.
4. Done!
5. When disaster strikes a large sum of money can be donated almost instantly from all users of the website.
6. All users receive an email saying how much they have donated and the total ammont the community has collectivly donated. Includes link to donate more money if desired.
7. A post can be published onto the users Facebook/Twitter account to rally their friends and promote their contribution.

Could branch into donations for other appeals - red cross door knock, wikipedia donations, personal donations… But disaster relief would benefit most from this automated/instant system.

I would be suprised if someone hasn’t already built a website like this… But if they haven’t it would be a great project.

Let me know what you think…

Everyday Hero is a brilliant example of what the website would ‘feel’ like. I think this is a brilliant charity webite: http://www.everydayhero.com.au/