Comments on: Release open, release awesome.

By: Boodle

Boodle — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:11:43 +0000

Having a few issues with it but it is for sure the best on the net. Thanks!!

Like a rock you Hurricane!

By: Tim Büthe

Tim Büthe — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:25:04 +0000

I’m a little disappointed, you thought about not open source this. This would not have protect your idea. What’s next, wanna get a patent for this :-?

However, the effect hurricans like a freakin’ rock! Thanks for sharing.

- Tim

By: Pierre

Pierre — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:30:55 +0000

Great Plugin !
But I’m still working on a page with 2 active corners, I don’t succeed !
Ideas ?

By: Raphael Martins

Raphael Martins — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:06:15 +0000

Great read. That’s an awesome plugin.

I was having the same dilema about releasing my tagbox plugin (http://saynotofastfood.info/tagbox/examples/) as open-source, but is the right decision. Everyone will benefit from it!

cheers!

By: Evgeniy

Evgeniy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:26:12 +0000

And how this plugin can be done under joomla? If there is such a development would be grateful for the information. I want to do it on your site http://torguem.net

By: Patrick Boyle

Patrick Boyle — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:29:00 +0000

I am having trouble with getting a clickable curl image to be clickable in IE7.
The code works fine in FF3010 and loads the page in the href. However in IE7, the image doesn’t appear to be a link (no hand cursor or alt text) and clicking doesn’t produce any page load.

(On another page, I am using Facebox to popup some information, rather than load a page, and that works in IE7 in spite of there being no active link.)

I hope you can throw some light on this.

Patrick

By: Japh

Japh — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:28:14 +0000

I really like the plugin, Elliott, and the story behind it even better. Would it rock you like a hurricane if I used it on my site? I think I might… it’s a nice way to show more technical info to people who are interested without shoving it in the face of those who aren’t (or at least, that’s how I want to use it :))

Thanks!

By: John McMullen

John McMullen — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:52:53 +0000

Sexy…

Great read. I’m the guy who made the Page Peel one you mentioned in the article;) I didn’t even have an original idea. My boss pointed me to a website and said, ‘Let’s do that.’, I said, ‘Let’s make a jQuery plugin to do that.’ Thus was born the Page Peel thingy.

40000 hits though?!? I knew I should’ve put sexy in the name. I hit around 20000 when it first released. The downward spiral afterwards is hard to stomach though. Guess it’s time to release another genius plugin.

By: Garrett D

Garrett D — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:33:27 +0000

Very interesting, I think I’m going to use this plug-in on my wordpress theme for my site if you don’t mind.
I hope it won’t turn into “that annoying javascript thing”. It doesn’t really bounce around like that one jQuery plug-in you mentioned, so I doubt someone could say it’s annoying when you don’t even have to look at it. Rock you like a hurricane.
Great work! :]
Garrett

By: Justin K

Justin K — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:57:54 +0000

I just love the progress that you have made, regarding open-source.
You went from

“I sat on the idea for a while, but decided that I didn’t want anyone else having my cool effect. I wanted it all to myself.”

To:

“Open Source isn’t just kernel-hackers in their parents’ basements. Open Source is everywhere.”

and that just makes me so happy!
Congrats Elliot…and….uh…”Rock you like a hurricane!”

By: Jack F

Jack F — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:12:00 +0000

Great post, but it’s easy (or easier) for you to get your project out there, I can’t chat to Rey and tell him about my new plugin or web app or whatever, and if I tweet about it I wont be retweeted through-out the interwebs.

(INless you fancy doing it ;) hehe).

But nice one on your success, hopefully I’ll get some hits from my new plugin (coming soon !)

Jack F.

By: Chris Colhoun

Chris Colhoun — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:59:15 +0000

Interesting to see how popular the plugin was and deservedly so!

A great plugin, Elliott inspired my new Business Cards:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chriscolhoun/3259692271/in/set-72157613539124160/

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:35:14 +0000

Rock you like a hurricane

A very good article, most interesting to find out the process you went through and the effect it had.

In a word “Awesome”

By: Doug Aitken

Doug Aitken — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:59:58 +0000

Elliott, it’s so true that you rock like a hurricane.

Props to you mate!

By: Richard Henry

Richard Henry — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:32:10 +0000

Hurricane a like you rock!

By: Danny Croft

Danny Croft — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:11:36 +0000

Good read thanks! Almost 40,000 pageviews is pretty impressive. I guess a large factor also is who you know. Oh and “rock you like a hurricane”!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 11:08:21 +0000

Rock you like a hurricane!

By: Tim Trueman

Tim Trueman — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:59:17 +0000

The problem is, you rock like a hurricane, BUT it’s freaking hard to remember that if you read the whole thing since it’s in the middle.

By: Tim Trueman

Tim Trueman — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:54:43 +0000

I’m really curious how you managed to make 8 cents…anyone got an explanation?