As our trusty spam king Phil Clevberger stumbled upon, these are some pretty amazing looking abandoned buildings in Taiwan.

The story goes that in the late 1970s a contemporary style holiday resort was commissioned using this UFO style prototype, however during the energy crisis in 1980 the project was abandoned mid-build. Located in a town near Taipei, the Government has ordered the ruined shells be dismantled. 

See this Flickr site for the full gallery:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cypherone/sets/72157600694356865/

Taking out the first Farmer of the Month award is flash developer, Chris Martin. 

Why?

- Multi-discipline talent

- No fuss team approach to projects

- AND even when his birthday is forgotten & he’s mistakingly not acknowledged as a core contributing member of the team for a major site launch – he can rise above it!

- Oh yes, AND making the web pretty, so pretty...

Congrats Chris!

Camp Quality, one of Australia’s top five most trusted charities, in partnership with leading digital agency, TheFARM, proudly announce the launch of their brand new official website - www.campquality.org.au 

Promoting a spirit of hope, belonging and support while exuding optimism and fun, Camp Quality’s engaging new website forms an integral part of its ongoing commitment to bringing hope and happiness to children living with cancer and their families.  

Camp Quality’s new website is a vibrant, immersive and highly engaging way to interact with the Camp Quality family online - anytime, anywhere. Offering something for everyone, children, families, volunteers and sponsors alike can readily interact with the website through CQ TV - where they can see the McDonald’s Camp Quality puppets in action, meet Giggle and see how great camp really is. A key feature of the new site is the opportunity for CQ fundraisers to create their own fundraising pages, with online fundraising and funds tally.  

Other interactive features delivered across multiple touch points are the CQ jukebox with uplifting songs, regionally specific dynamic content, testimonials, real life stories, expert information and advice, image, video and message sharing and randomly triggered bubbles of sunshine.                                                            

“At Camp Quality fun therapy flows through everything we do and our new website embodies this philosophy. There is CQTV which can take you right to the heart of our programs and information while providing access to your local office and plenty of jokes to keep you laughing and optimistic. Our redesigned site puts people front and centre. It introduces our Local CQ staff and gives our families the opportunity to stay connected with their friends at Camp Quality. Even children in hospital or in remote areas can log on and still feel part of the Camp Quality family because, as we say, laughter is the best medicine.” says Simon Rountree, Camp Quality’s CEO. 

“Consumer engagement and creating positive experiences are always integral to any website we design and build but they are of particular importance in Camp Quality’s case. The new website is a channel by which Camp Quality can open their arms wider than ever and provide 24/7 support and messages of happiness to people who truly need it,” said Chris Pile, Managing Director of TheFARM.   

“We are particularly proud of the new Camp Quality website and it is one of the best and most compelling charity websites I have seen in a long time,” added Chris. 

Be sure to log onto www.campquality.org.au to join in the fun of bubbles of sunshine online. 

ENDS 

For further information, high resolution images and/or to arrange an interview opportunity, please contact:

Katy Denis

TheFARM PR Manager

M: 0414 388 879

E: kt@ktgcreative.com.au

Just launched: www.iphorest.com the iPhone app developed by Ecolife that allows you to plant both a real and a virtual tree.

MTV launches ‘Yes, Yes, Yes – To Safe Sex’ - the latest in its HIV/AIDs awareness campaigns through a partnership with the Body Shop, including selling a limited edition lip butter to raise funds for MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation - www.yestosafesex.com

As part of Mother London’s campaign promoting Stella Artois’ new 4% strength lager, they've created the ‘Smooth Originals’ - a series of short films which spoof contemporary US TV shows and movies, but in the style of cult French directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, etc - www.smoothoriginals.com

I've been using jQuery for a while but haven't really been using it much in the form of building custom classes or libraries. I've been working on re-developing Umbraco's JavaScript tree using jsTree (which is great by the way!) and have been writing a JavaScript library to support it. As with most code libraries, events play an important role in writing clean and effective code. In the past I've always used simple callback methods for "event handling" in JavaScript, but this isn't really an event system since it doesn't allow more than one subscriber. After some quick research, jQuery has this all built into the core, and by adding a couple very simple methods to your JavaScript classes, they will instantly support an event model!

Quick example: 

var myObject = { 
  addEventHandler: function(fnName, fn) {
    $(this).bind(fnName, fn);
  },
  removeEventHandler: function(fnName, fn) {
    $(this).unbind(fnName, fn);
  },
  doSomething: function() {
    $.event.trigger("somethingHappening", [this, "myEventArgs"]);
  }
}

The above example is an object defining 2 functions to manage it's event model and another method which raises an event called "somethingHappened" with an array of arguments that will get bubbled to the event handlers.

To subscribe to the events is easy:

function onSomethingHappening(EV, args) {
  alert("something happened!");
  alert("sender: " + args[0]);
  alert("e: " + args[1]);
}
//subscribe to the event:
myObject.addEventHandler("somethingHappening", onSomethingHappening);

You'll notice that the above event handler function has 2 arguments, one called "EV" and one called "args". The EV parameters is the jQuery event object and the second one is the custom arguments object that was created when raising the event.

Since Umbraco's admin section uses an iframe approach, i though that managing events between the iframes would be an issue since they are all using seperate jQuery instantiations, but by raising and consuming events with the above method, this is no problem.