Getting Flashy

Submitted by bingomanatee on 17 December, 2009 - 15:50

So I have finally made the jump into Flash games. I used flash a long time ago and its really matured since, so I thought I would drop a few notes as I go about things that just aren't really obvious.

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Zupal: Drupal for Zend Framework

Submitted by bingomanatee on 22 October, 2009 - 19:08

Zupal is my attempt to bring Drupal design philosophy into the Zend Framework. It has also been my attempt to take the "slow road" to learn the galaxy that is Zend Framework will still keeping my day job. Though slow to progress, the following benchmarks have been achieved in Zupal.

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Zend Forms: my, how they blow!

Submitted by bingomanatee on 13 April, 2009 - 23:19

Ultimately anyone who comes into the ZF runs into forms and is blown away by how inflexible difficult the forms are to use. While they do have a fair amount of power, the investment you put into learning them doesn't seem to be in proportion to the functionality you get out of them.

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This site is my professional storefront and warehouse of good ideas and useful tech links. (don't click this -- its an intro stub.)

RoBlox

Submitted by bingomanatee on 8 March, 2010 - 13:32

http://www.roblox.com

Real fun virtual legos

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Day Range Indexer

Submitted by bingomanatee on 6 March, 2010 - 14:12

I wanted to create a way to rapidly compare and get date ranges (in days) between two dates. So I created a class that indexes all dates within a range of years and retuns an integral value for any given date, i.e., in years from year zero. This was done for the purpose of creating a Gantt table with date pagination.

The entire library is pretty short so I'm just pasting it here:

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dateutils

Submitted by bingomanatee on 6 March, 2010 - 11:44

A library for date display. Focused on parsing strings to dates (granular to the day), displaying short forms of day or month names (English only for now) and comparing two dates (again granular to the day.)

This library is pretty "custom" to the way I use dates but it is foundational to the date_index utility

Functions:

cmp_day(d1: Date, d2: Date): int (-1, 0, or 1)

date_offset(d: Date, days: int)

day1(d: Date)

day3(d: date)

short_date(d: date, month_name: boolean)

str_to_date(d: string)

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