Posts Tagged ‘fun’

Dooodls for everyone!

Published by Ronny on September 20th, 2009 in Open-source, Wordpress, plugins. 34 comments Tagged with , , , , , , , ,

Wordpress logo A few days ago I presented the Dooodle application I built. You guys created some cool doodles and I totally love it!

But it’s still an independent application hacked into Wordpress using basic widget.  That means I can’t just share the code so you can use it too on your website (since you’ll have to set up a database, fill in config files, etc… Boring stuff). So yesterday I decided to compact this into a handy Wordpress plugin.
And this is what I did: I give you Dooodl!

[UPDATE] Mark asked me to share the source of the Dooodl Creator App, so I did ;) Feel free to send me links to your own creator. I might add different creators to the plugin, and let you choose in the WP-admin which one you’d like your visitors to use :)

Read the rest of this entry »

Dooodl(e) fun!!

Published by Ronny on September 17th, 2009 in Experiments, General, Wordpress. 2 comments Tagged with , , , , , , , , ,

8jjkWhen Dorien and I were in Denmark, back in June, we stayed at a bed & breakfast. Before leaving we signed the guestbook. That made me think back of the days when I had a guestbook on my site. I remember building tons and tons of those things. The more I kept thinking about this, the more I started to realize I really liked it back then. And to be honest: I still love the idea of a random visitor leaving you a message… However, a good old fashioned ‘guestbook’ is kinda ‘out’…

I have been thinking about this for some time. A few weeks ago I was browsing Kris‘ site and found the answer to this guestbook-problem in the sidebar: A Doodle-wall. He allows his visitors to draw a little doodle and save it to the sidebar. Better yet: He built a history-browser too which allows you to browse all doodles through time. Read the rest of this entry »

Bezier animation fun!

Published by Ronny on March 3rd, 2009 in Actionscript, Experiments. 9 comments Tagged with , , , , , ,

Last week I went to FITC in Amsterdam. It was great! I had such a great time. I met a lot of intresting people and although Amsterdam turned out to be quite expensive place, I really liked being there a few days.

During the conference I attended Joshua Davis‘ session which really inspired me. I’ve never seen Joshua Davis present, nor did I know his work. Let me be as crystal clear about this as I can be: The man is a freakin’ genius!
During his session he showed a few demo’s of bezier animated stuff. I felt like trying that myself, and this is what I came up with.

The basic concept is to create a bezier in Actionscript and animating movieclips using the bezier as its motion path.

  • Basic principle (this is actually just a basic pentool (without the option of adding new points :-P ))

The following versions use the same concept as this one, except instead of fixed anchor points, they all use random points defined in 2 planes. This makes a bit of variety possible allthough the main animation stays the same and that’s absolutely cool!

I added a few keyboard controls to give you some control of what is happening

  • spacebar = show the handles
  • r = clear the bitmap
  • p = pause the animation
  • n = randomize handles
  • b = blur more

<head> revisited

Published by Ronny on November 1st, 2008 in Community, General. 2 comments Tagged with , , ,

Man, I can’t believe it’s been a week already since the first edition of <head> kicked off. This event was so freaking amazing, I don’t even know where to start.

Okay, let’s just start right from the beginning. At first I didn’t really feel quite comfortable about the ‘online room’ concept. I remember having these meetings in Connect rooms, and believe me: those are horrible memories. Fact is: When I entered a room, 2 attendees were already there and they were having this conversation…

Attendee 1: Hmz, aren’t we kinda early?
Attendee 2: Yea… True… Oh well, at least we’ve got good seats, right? Read the rest of this entry »

Cool quotes from the <head> conference

Published by Ronny on October 26th, 2008 in Community, General. 6 comments Tagged with , , , ,

Yea yea, there we go: My first English post on my blog. (Feel free to correct me whenever I make stupid mistakes ;) )

UPDATE: I’ve added some more quotes from day 3! <head> speakers rock!

UPDATE 2: Added some more cool quotes!

I attended the second day of the <head> conference today. At 10PM (Brussels) I tuned in on the session about Red5, presented by Chris Allen and Keith Peters. We had a lot of fun, and the session was pretty awesome (even though Chris was fighting the Red 5 server, and Adobe Connect most of the time).

During the session Chris and Keith went off, throwing out all of these crazy quotes, and I promised everybody I’d post them on my blog. Afterwards somebody (I think Patrick Welfringer) told me not to forget to post this, and asked me the URL. So here you go: Cool quotes from the <head> conference! Read the rest of this entry »