grimmwerks

Flutter vs. Magic Fields

I had been looking at the custom post types that were added in WP 2.9 and fleshed out in WP3, but they still don’t offer the sort of database control I’m hoping for with a book publisher’s website. Read more

Busy Busy Busy! WordPress, jQuery..

I’ve not posted on a number of interesting tech developments of late (Adobe vs Apple) and what that means for third party iPhone / iPad compilers (appcelerator’s Titanium, Elips from openplug, Unity3d) — but I’ve been extremely busy working on a few websites utilizing WordPress and writing some custom widgets and plugins utilizing the fantastic jQuery.

I’ve been blown away getting under the hood with WordPress and jQuery – creating custom post types, smart widgets and who knows what madness — and it’s definitely something I’ll be doing a lot more. I had been looking at drupal for these two websites but it’s definitely way more granular than I needed for these two gigs.

I’ve got some Flex players I’m finishing up as well and a lot more data wrasslin’….

Lego and Unity

Don’t know how this escaped my attention, but my old buddy Tom Higgins of Unity (ex Macromedia Director ambassador) posted that Unity Tech signs a three-year deal with LEGO!.

Ah — it’s funny; having recently been playing with Quartz Composer again, I’m feeling the need to delve back into 3d world…

Drupal as base system for Mobile

This is an interesting video — demonstrating how drupal can be used as the base system for iPhone/iPad/Android using Appcelerator Titanium — even if it’s painful to listen to the ‘I Got Drupal’ music video…

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Flash Catalyst intro

A few good videos by Doug Winnie showing the steps from inception, wireframing to handing off the UI to a developer:

All the episodes can be found here.