Brett Wejrowski

Projects

HelloRent

HelloRent is an application I helped build that came out of a frustration with online apartment finders. It was built with an fresh take on searching and filtering geographic data, starting with the UI and creating an infrastructure to support it. I handled the javascript development, php development, and system architecture.
simpleCart(js)

simpleCart(js) is an extremely simple, unobtrusive javascript shopping cart built for small store fronts to help get up and running in minutes. It started as a blog post and has grown into an active following with 60,000+ downloads over the past 2 years, being used in countries all over the world.
Motionspire

Motionspire.com is a motion graphics inspiration gallery. It uses a custom video player and runs on top of Backbone, a CMS I built with Ruby on Rails.
Site Monitor

Site Monitor is a basic dashboard for monitoring the uptime and download speeds of client websites. The interface is built with images and uses many CSS3 techniques. Nearly all of the testing is done on the client side with a custom JS library.
Twetris

Twetris is a javascript game that uses recent Twitter tweets as blocks for Tetris. It was a fun experiment to test out the twitter API, as well as simple game dev with JS.

Scripts

AnimateStep

JQuery plugin that does staggered animations on a set of elements.
Git Site Backup

Quick and dirty backup script for website files and db using Git.
Auto Cache Update

Method for modifying asset urls when file is modified.
Local Storage

Gracefully Degrading HTML5 Local Stroage

Somethings going on in the #kitchen, but I don't know whats #cookin

Articles

April Fool’s Floating Text Script
Aril 1, 2010
This year’s javascript trick involves taking individual words on your page and let them float or creep away. Every time the user does not move their mouse for 5 seconds (you can change this interval), the words will start to creep. Once they move their mouse again, the words will return to their original spot.
Simulating HTML5 Local Storage Support
Jan 14, 2010
I have been wanting to use HTML5′s local storage for a while, but I haven’t had a project where I can just ignore the older browsers. So I put together a little ( under s1Kb gzipped ) script that checks for HTML5′s local storage API, and simulates the method for browsers that do not support it. For those browsers, the script implements a nearly identical interface to localStorage for persistent storage of name/value pairs, except it uses cookies.
simpleCart(js) Version 2.0 Released!
August 10, 2009
We are happy to announce the release of simpleCart(js) version 2.0 today. We have been working hard to add several features that you all have requested, and we’re excited to get this script in your hands. There are several new features, including GoogleCheckout, easy currency settings, tax, shipping, and a new method for adding items to your cart that requires no javascript, and allows for different inputs and options.
Javascript Number.toCurrency()
July 31st, 2009
While working on simpleCart(js) 2.0 and a few shopping carts for clients, I found myself writing several helper functions for formatting strings and numbers. One of the most useful helpers was a toCurrency() method for numbers