New Web Apps!

By Jonathan Lam on 03/06/16

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I've posted a new little web application, Speller Bee. I know that it should be "Spelling Bee," but that name was taken on Heroku (where the Node.js server is hosted) and therefore I chose something a little different to spice it up.

It comes with all the main features from the Wordnik API, an interesting platform uses the Swagger API framework that got me so utterly confused for weeks until I figured it out last weekend. And on top of that, it took me a few days to figure out Wordnik by itself. Therefore, this is very new and unpolished, and only the "definitions" and "examples" buttons are really working as they are supposed to.

On top of that, I played around with Google's AngularJS and Google Material Colors to get a nice, clean look. As always, it also uses jQuery for DOM manipulation and CSS3 animations for the smoothest and coolest effects.

It was originally intended to be a lightweight Spelling Bee contestant assistant that chooses random words, pronounces them, and tells if the user is correct or incorrect. At the moment, it is simply a dictionary, but I can work on that. But it is fast, especially on slower computers such as mine that cannot handle more popular sites with too many advertisements, such as Dictionary.com.

Secondly, I am also releasing a simple note-taking Chrome extension that both creates an action-button in the top right and replaces your newtab page with the same, simple page. It automatically saves to your browser, so you can easily access it online or offline. It's fast and simple. If you open it in another tab or with the action-button, any changes will automatically be seen in the other ones (after a minor delay). Just make sure not to delete your browser's cache… Check it out at Noted.

At the moment, I am also formulating ideas to create a modular organizational system for the average computer user, which will be based on JavaScript's OOP structure but applied to real-world data. It will be an interesting, direct application of programming skills in the hectic world of school we live in today.