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In early 2015 I was given a brief to create a mobile sales app for my employers travelling salespeople to use when they visit customers. I had to rush a prototype out in 4 days which was barely functional but largely UI complete.
A few more weeks of work and it all came together. There’s still a few feature gaps and such but all the important stuff is there.
A quick look at another website build for Christmas tree wholesaler/retailer, Jadecliff.
During my tenure at Jadecliff/Marldon Christmas Tree Farm I’ve designed or had a hand in designing numerous products, labels, signs and banners. This post will basically be a photodump with a brief description for each item, so enjoy!
Today I’ve got a fun snowfall effect that seems to settle and accumulate on objects in the scene over time.
Continue reading “HTML5 Snowfall Effect”Today we’re looking at the website for Marldon Christmas Trees for the 2014 festive season. It runs on WordPress with custom plugins to handle two booking forms and a customized letter from Santa designer which we’ve seen before.
Let’s dive in.
Greetings once again, time to talk about a game prototype!
I briefly worked at a small marketing agency where I produced this to pitch the owner of a number of Christmas tree farms. Work started May 2013 and concluded around July.
I wanted to try and make a runner-type game in the tree farm, and over a few iterations I think we came out with something kinda fun – although requiring a lot more work to get to release.
Continue reading ““Where’s Woodchuck?” Game”Hello everyone, today we’ll take a very quick look at a hardware mod I did a little while back on an old D-Link DIR-615.
This was initially an experiment in building a wireless repeater network to span some more of my workplace, so I wanted to fit large, high gain antennae. The DIR-615 seems an odd choice then, given it has fixed, non-removable antennae and is fairly famous for dodgy wireless performance out-the-box.
But I haven’t lost all my marbles because it also supports DD-WRT, the open source router firmware that gives you a worrying amount of control. Coupled with the fact that I was able to buy two DIR-615‘s for under £10, I think we have a winner!
Continue reading “D-Link DIR-615 Modding”Quick web project today – a website for a local scaffolding company atop WordPress. This was back in 2013 and having never used WordPress for anything other than this blog before it was a learning curve.
Above the fold features the nav, a service guarantee, various accreditations and a short slideshow of sample jobs, and from there we break in to three columns to enumerate the types of work the company will undertake.
That’s all folks, thanks for reading.
Long time no blog! I’ve been so busy at work recently I haven’t had any time to work on other stuff.
But today I have a little php nugget I had to put together recently that I think someone will find useful.
In the past I’ve dabbled with generating images dynamically in php – usually basic stuff, website statistics etc. But recently I had to do something a little more advanced in generating preview images of “Letters from Santa” that people would be paying for.
This involved placing a large amount of text within a series of template images – including ones with oddly shaped spaces the text would need to wrap around. I guess you could brute force it – manually position each line – but that’s frankly ludicrous and not future-friendly at all.
So, let’s make a solution.
Continue reading “Generating previews with imagettftext”Hello everybody.
Long time no blog, so here’s a quick catch up: I got a job at a small start up doing many varied and interesting things. The first project I was given built on my experiences with game development, and somewhat outstandingly I got to start writing a new game in Haxe NME! I can’t go in to details about the title right now, but it’s 99% complete and looking good.
One desired aspect of the game was an online leaderboard of some sort, so we can assign rewards to weekly/monthly winners. I’d never even looked at NMEs web function before, vaguely deciding I’d worry about highscores in Tower Defence “at some point”.
To my relief it’s super simple to use, and with a few php files on a server I’ve got a nice simple highscore system running.
Continue reading “Online highscore system for Haxe NME”