Ok, so I think I’m addicted to Inkscape….

It goes something like this:

Find image for inspiration
Open Inkscape
Zoom in at 1000%
Create vectors
Shade
Drop jaw…

It’s too easy!

Tags: art, graphics, Inkscape

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I’ve been totally enamored of late with Inkscape, an incredible open source vector graphics application.

In no time flat, I’ve become totally immersed in it’s intuitive tools and found myself looking reasons to create new graphics with it.

My latest example, “Old Man” took about three hours, but much of that was spent playing with the best strategy for using layers.

Fun stuff, Maynard!

Tags: art, Design, graphics, Inkscape

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You’ve seen the “PHP Pinup” girls dressing up the menu column of my site. Most of these come courtesy of El Roubio , a French PHP developer who’s made it his mission to spread PHP logos and related art throughout the web.

I’ve created my own new contribution to PHPinup art. Click the thumbnail for a larger image.

Tags: logo, PHP

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One of my clients has opted to be the first “production” guinea pig of my awfRadial class. Since it still isn’t complete I’m sure there will be issues to resolve, but so far it’s performing it’s roll flawlessly.

Go take a look at this beauty in action at http://mailahug.com/test

Tags: awfRadial

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The awfDialog class received a nomination for the PHP Innovator Award for the month of March from PHPClasses.Org. Voting goes on through the month of April, so, shamelessly, I’d like to ask for your support. The nomination text reads as follows:

Wizard is the name that is called to user interfaces that guide the user
through a series of steps that need to be performed to achieve a certain
task. This kind of user interfaces is typically found in desktop
applications.

It is possible to implement wizards in a Web site by showing a sequence of
pages with all the steps. However, multi-page wizard are not as usable as
desktop application wizards, as they make the user wait for the next page
to load.

This class provides a solution to implement Web based wizards that uses
AJAX to minimize the time it takes to load the next page. This way, Web
based wizards are practically as usable as desktop application wizards.

Tags: award, awfDialog, class, PHP, wizard

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I’m happy to say the initial version of awfRadial is coming along quite nicely. It is fully functional in Radial Mode, and I’ve implemented the Yahoo! UI animation libraries so the items slide out from the base using any one of 13 optional animation modes. I’ll try to link up a rough demo tomorrow.

Next I’m looking into several javascript drawing libraries to create the lines running between base and items.

Tags: awfRadial

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