So how does the cat err, catalyze stuff?

Not sure, but I like the way the word rolls off your tongue...cat-a-ly-ti-cat

Anyway, this website is basically a brain dump for my thoughts, designs and writing.
So have a look around and I hope you find something interesting.

And I enjoy getting comments so please feel free to leave one. ;)

- Sean Ockert
My narcissistic music corner

The bands on repeat on my iPod are Nine Inch Nails and The Tea Party. I'm praying that Nine Inch Nails does a stand alone concert in Brisbane but I fear that I might just have to cave in and get a ticket to Soundwaves in Feb.

Also, there's 2 incredible Aussie bands that deserve so much more attention than they recieve:
The Butterfly Effect and Mammal.

The Leonard Cohen concert was fantastic. An epic 3 hour show that I hope won't be his last.

Jun
14

jUmble - a jQuery plugin

I’d like to share a little javascript function I’ve been working on. Click on the folder image below:

Basically what I wanted was an interesting and animated way of displaying groups of images.

jUmble simply randomises the distance, spread and rotation of your group of images, splaying them out next to the folder. You can use as many images as you want and have multiple folders. It works well with lightbox too (as in the demo above). The image rotation part uses jQuery rotate - but it’s kinda just hacked into this plugin at the moment (one of the things to fix). The script is a bit over 3kB when minified.

Anyway, download the demo (46kB) (or the lightbox version) and have a play around with it, if you feel inclined.

Let me know what you think.

Tags: jquery

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Rob Kingston

30th July, 2008

Hey Sean,

Just thought I’d let you know that I’m having troubles trying jUmble on your site. When I click on the folder, it doesn’t seem to do anything. FYI, I’m running Firefox 3.0.1 on my Win XP Pro SP2 Centrino Laptop. Hope that helps.

Sean

31st July, 2008

Thanks for pointing that out Rob. I realised I’d accidently included two copies of jquery.js file on the page which was causing the problem. It should work fine now.