noCreativity.com » I can haz Dooodl http://nocreativity.com The life and discoveries of a new media artist Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:03:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Dooodls for everyone! http://nocreativity.com/blog/dooodls-for-everyone http://nocreativity.com/blog/dooodls-for-everyone#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:46:49 +0000 Ronny http://nocreativity.com/blog/?p=623 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 :)

Plugin page: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dooodl
Direct download: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/dooodl.zip
Dooodl Creator source (Flash Builder Beta): Click

If you install it, feel free to drop me a line. Feel free to post the url to your blog as well. I’d be happy to see who’s using it and what people are drawing :-)

(And yes: If you find any bugs, do post them as comment underneath ;-) )

Have fun!

]]> http://nocreativity.com/blog/dooodls-for-everyone/feed 76 Dooodl(e) fun!! http://nocreativity.com/blog/dooodle-fun http://nocreativity.com/blog/dooodle-fun#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:06:07 +0000 Ronny http://nocreativity.com/blog/?p=614 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.

I loved the idea and the philosophy behind this and went to build my own. I just finished the first part of Dooodl (this is the name of the official WordPress plugin coming out sometime soon ;) ) and it’s already running in the sidebar! Feel free to test it and save some doodles! If you run into any kind of bugs or unpleasant problems, let me know!
Feel free to drop me a line, whatever the reason might be: Bugreport, suggestions or the good old ‘I iz serious cat! I can haz hamburger, not guestb00k!‘

Links:
Draw your own: Click!
View all of them using the (temporary) History Viewer: Click!

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