Hi, I'm Toby Mackenzie, a beginning web developer in the Akron/Cleveland, Ohio area. I do front and back end development at Cogneato, a small web firm in Akron. There I also do some SEO and other tasks. I have done one freelance project on my own, a site that I continue to maintain, and am interested in doing more.

I am skilled at programming and working with databases, as well as handling a number of other web related duties. I have an Associates degree in eBusiness management from Cuyahoga Community College. I have experience working with these web technologies and applications:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • XML
  • XSL
  • PHP
  • ASP
  • MySQL
  • SQL Server
  • Photoshop
  • Apache
  • *NIX administration
  • BASH scripting
  • JavaScript
  • JQuery

You can read more about me on my about me page or LinkedIn profile. See some of the projects I've worked on at my portfolio page. Feel free to contact me about web issues or if you know me.

My Web Development Blog

I also maintain a blog on Wordpress.com about various web development related things of interest. These are some of my recent posts:

JQuery UI Droppable and Handling Multiple Draggable Types per Droppable

JQuery UI Draggable and Droppable make it fairly easy to implement dragondrop on a web page. There are some things that are not easy to do with it though. One example is having a droppable accept multiple types of draggables with different responses depending on type, especially when added at different times (for instance, being
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Synopsis 2011

Haven’t been posting much at all, but I’ve not been working on web stuff any less. I’ll give a bit of a synopsis of what I’ve been doing. This year I’ve been doing less new and interesting with HTML and CSS and more with JavaScript and PHP and database stuff, particularly the last several months.
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Givecamp 2011

Last weekend I went to GiveCamp in Cleveland. GiveCamp is a weekend of developers and designers building sites and applications for various charities. There were like 202 people there, working in the Lean Dog boat and in the hallway of Burke Lakefront Airport. There were 22 charities, each assigned a team appropriate to their needs.
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Animation queue management for jQuery

jQuery makes it fairly easy to animate DOM elements. Animating a single-step animation on one or more elements is simple with the call of the animate method. Multi-step animations can be more complex because animations are run asynchronously, meaning that they will start running when called but the script will continue onto the next step
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Javascript hash handler and router

At work I did my first fully ajax loaded, from scratch site, Block Bros. I used jQuery with my own library of “wrapper” classes for loading the ajax and animations between “pages”. I had to write a lot of new stuff though and modify some of my library classes to get everything working smoothly. Hash
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