I think that there is a strong need for a wordpress structured XML that gives you all the data you need:

• Navigation Menu (see Appearance>Menu)
• Pages
• Posts
• Bookmarks/Blogroll
• Categories
• .. and so on..

Soon I’ll write a plugin which you can install, so you can access your wp data via XML right away. For the timebeing here’s a temporary solution:

1. Download this file
2. Extract the file in your theme (wordpress installation/wp-content/themes/themename)
3. When navigating to your wp site/wp-content/themes/themename/xml.php you get the data you need.

This xml.php file isn’t optimized yet and there’s space for improvement! Modify it for your project needs. Hoops this helps you out

Theme developers can enable this menu by adding the following code to ‘functions.php’:

<?php
	add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'theme_setup' );
 
	function theme_setup() {
		register_nav_menus( array(
			'primary' => __( 'Primary Navigation', 'theme-identifier' ),
		) );
	}
?>

After this the menus will appear in ‘Appearance’ and your ready to create some custom menus the way you like.
Implementing the menu in your theme is as easy as adding this line of code:

<?php wp_nav_menu(); ?>

This will output the menu in an unsorted list (<li>’s). Of course it’s possible to style these menus by providing an arguments array, but I rather retrieve all menus in an ordered array without directly displaying them on the page.

The solution I came up with is really simple (strange it isn’t really documented on codex):

<?php
	$menus = wp_get_nav_menus();
	$menu_items = wp_get_nav_menu_items($menus[0]);
 
	foreach ($menu_items as $menu_item):
		echo "<div>";
		echo " <a href='$menu_item->url'>$menu_item->title</a>";
		echo "</div>";
	endforeach;
?>

• Custom Post Types
• Taxonomies
• Custom Admin Username and Password
• Custom Headers
• Advanced Menus
• MultiSite
• And lots more..

With this in mind I wrote an awesome portfolio plugin, called Simple Portfolio that makes your life easier . It enables you to have a portfolio section on your WordPress site in a proper way.

Simple Portfolio

Manage your portfolio projects easily and use them everywhere you like. This plugin is very simple to use, though it’s very powerful. It doesn’t bother you with a complex user interface. Add project specific information, for example your role and the team you’ve worked in. Add any media you like: YouTube, code snippets or any media from your wordpress built-in Media Library.

You can download Simple Portfolio on WordPress.org. Wonder how it works? You can find more information on the plugin’s homepage.

If you have any suggestions please let me know.

Watch the screencast to see the plugin in action!

So how does it works?

addChild( new Image("image.jpg") );

Is it really that easy?

Yes it’s that easy. The example above loads the image in it’s original size.
Mostly you want to constrain an image to a certain bounding box. Play with the parameters below and watch the generated AS3 code!

A zip file of DynImage can be downloaded at github.com. The zip file contains the source code and working examples (Flash CS4/CS5 & pure AS3).

If you have suggestions or questions please let me know! Or fork me at Github.com.

Not really spectacular, but I just wanted to share this with you guys.

Open the bundle editor in TextMate and create a command in PHP.

Here you can define a command. Here is the command for adding slashes in your selected text:

sed 's/['"'"'"]/\\&/g'

(It’s work in progress… the final version will be presented on the Dutch Design Week next week)

ps. the source can be found on Google Code

First determine which content type UTI the file uses. This will do the trick. Open terminal and type: qlmanage -d 4 -p path/to/file

Now scroll down, here you’ll see some further details, like which generator the file uses and what the content type UTI of this file is. Just copy the content type for now.

TextMate is my favorite simple text editor. To make this work you need to have a copy of TextMate installed. This tiny application handles the syntax highliting of your file extension. Now you have TextMate installed, download the TextMate Quicklook generator. By default this generator includes only some default programming languages like php,C++ and so on.. Copy and paste TMQuicklook.qlgenerator in /Library/QuickLook/ or ~/Library/QuickLook/. Open the package content of that generator

Open Info.plist in any text editor and add the content type that you’ve copied in your terminal.

Now reset your Quicklook generators, terminal: qlmanage -r and off you go!

Jankees, waarmee ik deze installatie gemaakt heb, is kort geinterviewd door het NOS journaal. Toch grappig dat deze installatie zo druk bezocht was en dat het uiteindelijk is uitgezonden op het journaal, terwijl er op dit festival grote uitgevers als Ubisoft ed. aanwezig waren.

10 juni is het zover! Dan gaan de Festival of Games dagen van start. Voor Project Fair zal ook mijn open-source “Voice Pong” installatie/game te bezichtigen zijn voor het publiek die ik samen met Jankees binnen mijn studietijd gemaakt heb. Voor een filmpje check http://www.vimeo.com/2242457. Tot mijn grote spijt kan ik die dag helaas niet aanwezig zijn.