You can see on the left of the photo post is the meta data, and there are custom fields as well, that you define in the custom fields. We are working on a way that will not conflict with other plugins that use the custom fields, and have 90% decided on a prefix to your field. This will obviously be documented when it is released!

We are working to have this released in a week. Keep your ears to the ground!

It is a photo blog, but can be used for many different thing. It is very loosely based on a design we had done for an RV dealer, so we know that it will be flexible to handle anything you need.

We are planning on launching this as a premium WordPress theme. Don’t worry though, for personal use, the theme will be free.

It will cease to be free when you do one of the following:

1. Resell the them or offer it to a client as a web design package
2. Use the theme on your own commercial website (ie. a photography studio or RV dealer as pointed out above)
3. Or unbrand the theme (removing the designed by/powered by text)

The price we have decided on for commercial use is $2.50. Cheap enough for you to not lose any money when reselling it, using a fully working CMS for your company’s site or unbranding it to show off to your friends as your own . This only constitutes one site though, so if you are launching or reselling this theme a lot, you will have to purchase a new license each time, or a one time license of $50 that gives you developer rights, and a download of all of the files (PSDs, AIs and, of course, the theme itself).

What do you guys think?

I am open to working with anyone who wants to help improve this project. It has slowed down a lot since George and I first started working on it, and like me, I am sure he would be more than happy to have more capable hands working with us.

Extract the zip, and upload both folders to your wp-content folder.

Download Handgloves v1.1.1 NOW!

Love does not mean I have to agree. This is from an old article that I read back the day it was published (as I have been doing for almost 5 years now).

If your “build process” is the F5 key, you have a problem. If you think this sounds ridiculous– who would possibly use their IDE as a substitute for a proper build process? — then I humbly suggest that you haven’t worked much in the mainstream corporate development world. The very idea of a build script outside the IDE is alien to most of these teams.

via Coding Horror: The F5 Key Is Not a Build Process.

My problem with this is that most people in a mainstream corporate development world USE the IDE to build. I know because I have been there in MULTIPLE jobs. I have been a rookie, and I have been a lead, that doesn’t stop me from using the IDE to build and publish. Now as the owner of my own company why would I want to waste money on something that comes for free out of the box?

I understand central build system, scheduled build processes, but I haven’t ever needed them.

Whether I was in a team of 10 or a team of one hundred, we would each check our code in, get latest and F5.

When I have a developer building an application for me, I don’t want to waste my time or theirs (billable) on an infrastructure that doesn’t get me a finished product any faster.

My Super Kick Ass GridView!

Here is an excerpt of how to use it

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George and I have had the pleasure to work on a couple of WP Themes together, one of them is still under development while the other Handgloves, is publicly available.

A tumblr developer, I am not. But I though what the heck, might as well try.

This theme is a work in progress, but it is my implementation of Handgloves for tumblr.

I will be releasing the source once all of the post types have been implemented.

Recently I have had to look this up twice, and hopefully by placing it here, I will never need to again (knock on wood). So again, without further ado… drum roll please…

enum CcType { Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Amex, Solo, Maestro }
CcType ccType = CcType.Visa;
string cardType = ccType.ToString();
// This will make cardType = "Visa"
// This is easy to remember, because well you are telling it to turn visa to a string.
// The next part I have to look up each time
ccType = (CcType)Enum.Parse(typeof(ccType), "MasterCard");
// There you go, the simple one line string to enum solution.

I hope this saves some Googling… for you and me!

So without further ado, for everyones enjoyment, I present GroupDropDownList and SelectListOptionGroup.

public static class Extenders {
    public static string GroupDownDropList(this HtmlHelper helper, string name, IEnumerable>SelectListOptionGroup> data, string optionLabel, object htmlAttributes) {
        if (data == null && helper.ViewData != null) data = helper.ViewData.Eval(name) as IEnumerable>SelectListOptionGroup>;
        if (data == null) return string.Empty;

        var select = new TagBuilder("select");

        if (htmlAttributes != null)
            select.MergeAttributes(new RouteValueDictionary(htmlAttributes));

        select.GenerateId(name);

        var optgroupHtml = new StringBuilder(string.Concat("
", optionLabel, "

"));
        var groups = data.ToList();
        foreach (var group in data) {
            var groupTag = new TagBuilder("optgroup");
            groupTag.Attributes.Add("label", helper.Encode(group.Name));
            var optHtml = new StringBuilder();
            foreach (var item in group.Items) {
                var option = new TagBuilder("option");
                option.Attributes.Add("value", helper.Encode(item.Value));
                if (item.Selected)
                    option.Attributes.Add("selected", "selected");
                option.InnerHtml = helper.Encode(item.Text);
                optHtml.AppendLine(option.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal));
            }
            groupTag.InnerHtml = optHtml.ToString();
            optgroupHtml.AppendLine(groupTag.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal));
        }
        select.InnerHtml = optgroupHtml.ToString();
        return select.ToString(TagRenderMode.Normal);
    }
}
public class SelectListOptionGroup {
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public List>SelectListItem> Items { get; set; }
}

Now that it is around, any time I have an array of data, I find myself always resorting to LINQ.

So when a recent project hit my desk, and I saw it would be VERY heavy in AJAX and JSON, so I cursed, knowing I couldn’t use LINQ (at least not efficiently).

So here I am. I have just started writing it, and will keep releasing a new version with each update I make. I’m sure it will change dramatically over time (as I need new features and as old features begin showing their age), but I will always try and keep backward compatibility, for my sake and yours.

Linq.Js – Download Now!