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Justin Tadlock

hoss — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:54:00 +0000

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.

WordPress 3.0 Custom Post Types

hoss — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:17:22 +0000

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 display them correctly.

Croogo, a CakePHP-powered CMS

hoss — Sat, 15 May 2010 21:53:40 +0000

I’m think I’m starting to really, really like Croogo, a CakePHP-powered CMS.

Groezrock Updates

hoss — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:10:09 +0000

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.

Awaiting CakePHP 1.3

hoss — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:58:36 +0000

With CakePHP 1.3 around for a little while now, its officially stable version will hit the shelves in about one week.

Groezrock 2010

hoss — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:28:12 +0000

So hopefully no more bands cancel their performance at Groezrock 2010!

Zelda Mobile

hoss — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:30:57 +0000

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 and the lack of an iPhone—or iPod Touch, for that matter—kind of made it a rather easy choice.) So, anyways, doing a little research here and there made me stumble upon Zelda Mobile, a mobile remake of the NES classic that seems to have just set the bar a whole lot higher.

Mimeo

hoss — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:57:03 +0000

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.

Easy Multiple File Uploads with Uploadify

hoss — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:41:13 +0000

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.

Free PNG compression with punypng

hoss — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:05:51 +0000

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 file was reduced with 41%, ending up a mere 2,385 bytes (coming from 4,017) which happens to be even smaller than the version that was originally smaller to start with!

Campaign Monitor Redesign Process

hoss — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:20:27 +0000

Newism recently launched part 3 in a series on the new Campaign Monitor launch. While parts 1 and 2 were mostly Expression Engine-focused, Jesse, in his contribution, digs a bit deeper into the design process of the new Campaign Monitor site.

Code Igniter from scratch

hoss — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:05:45 +0000

Code Igniter from scratch looks like it may grow into an interesting series. I also remember Kohana getting some coverage over at Nettuts+ recently, which, regardless of the quality of the post, is never a bad thing.

Hicksdesign’s New FontExplorer Icons

hoss — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:24:42 +0000

Jon Hicks informs the world on the recent design process for the new FontExplorer icons. Interesting read, and truly gorgeous outcome.

CakePHP 1.2 is here

hoss — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:08:16 +0000

Cake PHP 1.2 has—finally—been officially released.

The Essential Ingredients of the Pizza Box

hoss — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:22:46 +0000

The essential pizza box ingredients, as summarized for you by Kevin Cornell in what’s likely to become the most hilarious classic Bearskinrug article ever.