http://beta.dragonfly-networks.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:59:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I'm exploring the various things Catalyst can do, and following along with the tutorials and the Catalyst book from Packt Publishing, I'm going to write a little bit about it. I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place for this post, or if it would be better at ... http://beta.dragonfly-networks.com/2008/11/10/what-im-doing-with-catalyst/ I've recently been honing my chops with Perl's Catalyst framework; working my way through the tutorials, reading the module documentation, creating sample applications, and whatnot. The framework has a steep (for me, at least) learning curve, but I believe that overall it will improve my productivity and increase the maintainability ... http://beta.dragonfly-networks.com/2008/10/22/using-catalyst-to-develop-web-applications/ We've recently launched the Karn Skating Dynamics website. This project was really fun to work on; Barry, Beau, and Jodi Karn are all really great people and fun to work with, and the project allowed us to work with the fantastic Revolution Pro theme pack from Brian Gardner. Here's a ... http://beta.dragonfly-networks.com/2008/10/22/karn-skating-dynamics/ Well, it's been so long since I posted anything, I forgot my password to log in here, so I had to reset it, as usual. I feel lazy. It's not that I haven't really had anything to write about, rather, I've been so immersed in a few highly intensive projects, I ... http://beta.dragonfly-networks.com/2007/03/15/long-time-no-update/ drm-payback.com This is a beta test for an exciting new music website I'm developing with my friends. I wish I could describe it better, but since I can't hand out passwords willy-nilly due to the nature of the work, it will have to remain a mystery until I have the proper ... http://beta.dragonfly-networks.com/2007/01/13/links-explained/ To celebrate the New Year, we're giving away our GIMP plugin - Rounded Corners 1.0. RC1.0 is a Perl-fu plugin that shows up under Toolbox->Xtns->Render->Round Corners. You select a foreground and background color for your corners, width and height, custom prefix, and output directory, and four PNG files are automatically generated. These ... http://beta.dragonfly-networks.com/2007/01/08/free-rounded-corners-plugin-for-the-gimp/ I've been looking for a good visual HTML/CSS editor, and although it was a bit of a handful to get it running, I now have Nvu running on my Debian laptop. I also just discovered Quanta Plus, which was installed by default with KDE (I think), so I'll be attempting ... http://beta.dragonfly-networks.com/2006/12/27/nvu-installation-giving-up/ I just finished writing my first WordPress plugin, which was quite educational. You can get the php file here - sorry I didn't zip it or tarball it up. Maybe version 0.3 will come with zippyness. It works with WordPress 2.05, but probably won't work when 2.1 comes out, due to the ... http://beta.dragonfly-networks.com/2006/12/21/postcat2linkcat-plugin-for-wordpress-4/ So I guess I'm a Web Developer. At least in the sense that I can build a web site for my friend and his irrigation business. This is the first site that I have done on my own, and I have to say that....it's OK. I think the biggest change this ... http://beta.dragonfly-networks.com/2006/12/21/northstar-irrigation/ I've been working with the SimplePie WordPress plugin today on some of the sites we maintain, and also have been dabbling with a few other WordPress plugins. The SimplePie plugin is designed to make it easy to include RSS syndicated content on a WordPress site. It handles RSS and ATOM feeds ... http://beta.dragonfly-networks.com/2006/12/04/simplepie-plugin/