Justin Tadlock is not just the creator of the excellent Hybrid theme framework. His personal blog is one of the top resources on all things WordPress development, too. And recently, he’s written about custom post types and taxonomies more than about anything else.
There’s one nice write-up on custom post types in WordPress 3.0 over at Nettuts+. Instead of having to assign certain categories to certain posts and then hack your theme files in order to display them correctly, you can now add ‘whatever content type’—they’re not posts anymore. And then hack your theme files in order to [...]
I’m think I’m starting to really, really like Croogo, a CakePHP-powered CMS.
Hooray! It seems the Icelandic ash cloud’s caused Millencolin to be added to the Groezrock roster! Too bad about Hatebreed and Saves the Day cancelling, though.
With CakePHP 1.3 around for a little while now, its officially stable version will hit the shelves in about one week.
So hopefully no more bands cancel their performance at Groezrock 2010!
Ever since reading about Shaun Inman’s Mimeo, I sort of started delving into Java ME to see if I could pull off something similar. That is, create a tile-based side-scroller for the mobile phone. (I’m fully aware that Mimeo actually runs on the iPhone and is written in C/Objective-C, but both prior experience with Java [...]
I just ran into Shaun Inman’s blog post on his Mimeo and the Kleptopus King, a Mario Bros.-inspired side-scroller and pure pixel-perfect awesomeness.
Uploadify‘s a jQuery plugin that allows anyone to very easily add multiple file uploads to their website. I happened to bump into some tips on how to integrate Uploadify with CakePHP as well.
Make sure you try punypng, a free PNG compression service that drastically reduces images file sizes. I uploaded both a true color and an indexed color version of the same image, and while the indexed version’s file size was reduced with 13%, from 2,720 to 2,388 bytes that is, the size of the true color [...]