All posts filed under: development

Ulterior Motive site goes live
05/07/2009 - 21:07

A friend of mine recently asked me to build a website to promote his music, I say asked me but it's probably fairer to say that I offered my services as soon as he mentioned he was looking at MySpace.com. I hate MySpace and while the idea of it is cool, it's code and look are horrendous! Step up Drupal 6...

development, drupal 6, website
Collectr - When life give you lemons...
07/05/2010 - 13:14

For any of you reading this who know me well, you will know that for what seems like an eternity I have been wanting to make a movie cataloging web application. This stems from a few

apple, collectr, development, iphone, project
Changing the type of a Drupal node
06/24/2010 - 22:58

Not for the faint hearted this, you need a very good understanding of Drupal, Node objects and CCK in order to do this successfully. I thought I would jot down the steps I carried out in order to change my blog nodes from one type to another.

cck, development, drupal 6, tutorial
Drupal 7 - First Impressions...
02/28/2010 - 15:26

As a web developer who works with Drupal (5 & 6) on a daily basis at work, naturally I am getting excited and intrigued by what Drupal 7 will bring to the table. A colleague of mine at Sift, Dan Slinky has just published www.openslinky.com and wanted a theme for it. I took the challenge and thought I would post my first impressions on working with Drupal 7 for the first time...

development
Flex 3 & the FIVe3D Library
12/02/2009 - 22:02

This posts is aimed at helping other people interested in using the FIVe3D Flash 3D Engine in Flex. I spent a good few hours trying to figure out why all the tutorials I was following were not working, so hopefully this post will help anyone in the same boat. I only managed to figure this out by diving into the Flex 3 Language Reference and swearing a lot!

3D, as3, development, five3d, flash, flex
Adventures in CSS3
11/30/2009 - 10:42

While giving my site a facelift (which isn't quite finished yet I know) I thought I would have a little play with CSS3 to see what could be done and I have to say I am impressed and frustrated in equal measure at the moment.

CSS, css3, development, website
Adding Unity3D to your Drupal site
11/16/2009 - 10:53

A few months back I decided I would write a module that handled the uploading and display of Unity3D players to Drupal based sites. I must admit I haven't spent long on this since I came up against some pretty tricky file upload issues, on top of that I have been attempting to buy a flat for what seems like forever, so development on this has come to a bit of a stand still.

aquiris, development, jQuery, template, Unity, Unity3D, unityObject
Styling jQuery plugins... you're doing it wrong!
11/05/2009 - 10:51

I love jQuery, it's an amazingly powerful tool but there is one thing that always infuriates me whenever I come to installing a new plugin - inline styles!

Yesterday I spent the day adding a Simple Gallery photo gallery to a clients site. All went surprisingly well considering the site and the gallery was plugged in successfully, the last thing I had to fix was the fact that all the images appeared to be left aligned and I wanted them centered to avoid a nasty black border.

CSS, development, jQuery
Using virtual hosts with MAMP without needing MAMP Pro
11/04/2009 - 20:21

A few weeks back I published a blog post about updating a MAMP installation. It actually proved to be very popular to I thought I would follow it up with a quick run through of getting virtual hosts up and running on MAMP without the need to purchase MAMP Pro. I don't have anything against MAMP Pro, this is just a free way of doing it for users who are prepared to get their hands a little more dirty than others.

apache, development, MAMP, tutorial, vhosts
MediaShelf Web App
11/01/2009 - 21:52

After years of switching from platform to platform and language to language, I am starting to make very good progress on my media cataloging application. A brief history....

development, drupal 6, flex, movies, webapp, website