A New Year
Well it’s been awhile since I last updated. With the new decade upon us, I wanted to recap some of the things I’ve been doing.
Development has continued on 10bestthings.com since it’s launch and the site is coming along nicely. I built the prototype and beta version of a community music album project for Tommy Lee, which can be found here. I did the rapid development of the software and it has since been passed on to a group who manages the code full time. That was a fun project and I’m glad I got to work with the guys over at Retronyms.
That project allowed me (or should I say forced me…) to dig way deep into Zend Framework’s decorator classes in order to get our forms looking the way the designer mocked them up. The Zend_Form class is really nice from a code standpoint as it really takes a lot of the tedium out of the process. But the trade off definitely comes when you need to implement a heavily styled look & feel to it. However once you get a feel for how it all works, and build some custom elements to suit your needs, it all comes together nicely.
Besides those two projects, I also jumped back onto the development team for Jakprints.com and IndieMerchStore.com – which is exciting, as I helped create the original code for Indie many years ago. It’s great working with my old friend Mike Hickey again, along with the rest of the Sprokets guys/gals. If you ever need anything printed (business cards, postcards, t-shirts, stickers… pretty much anything) I highly recommend checking out Jakprints. They do excellent work, have quick turn-around, and are very eco-friendly (rad dudes too).