Category Archives: open-source

WordPress 3.0+ Portfolio Plugin

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WordPress is by far the most popular blogging platform available. The new release version WordPress 3.0 includes some cool new features, like:

  • 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.

Create a project

Adding images with the built in Media Library

Adding YouTube movies..

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!

DynImage: Powerful AS3 Image Util

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Loading an external image in your flash/flex project isn’t that difficult, but mostly there are too many steps involved just for showing a regular image. As a flashdeveloper I need to show a bunch of external images for almost all my projects. Therefore I decided to write something that does all the loading logic and displays it in a smart way. DynImage is a very simple but powerful image util with extensible functionality. It’s very lightweight and easy to use! You can even assign a preloader and create custom animations in a single line of code. Besides, cropping and scaling an image to fulfill your needs can be done in a breeze!

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!

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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.