Jan Boddez

Mimeo

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

So I just ran into Shaun Inman’s descriptive blog post on his Mimeo and the Kleptopus King, a Mario Bros.-inspired side-scroller that looks a lot like pixel-perfect awesomeness to me.

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 EE-focused, Jesse, in his contribution, digs a bit deeper into the design process of the new Campaign Monitor site.

Kohana, the Swift PHP Framework

hoss — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:52:25 +0000

I’ve been diggin’ somewhat into Kohana lately, and must say it looks like quite good an alternative to Cake.

Kohana’s supposed to literally mean swift, though I’m not too sure how it compares to recent versions of other PHP frameworks. It sure feels fast enough, and then there’s always caching to fall back on.

Obvious pro: Kohana’s totally up-to-date with PHP 5, which is exactly where Cake’s been lacking somewhat, lately.

So anyways, I might just come up with a tutorial of some kind later on—Kohana’s learn pages seem to be pretty out-of-date.

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.

So looking forward to seeing Death Cab play in Brussels tomorrow night!

hoss — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:40:18 +0000

So looking forward to seeing Death Cab play in Brussels tomorrow night!