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Finally – the Franklin Street Wordpress Theme is Released

Posted on 9 September, 2009 at 6:00am with 15 comments

Nearly nine months ago, the new version of Some Random Dude was launched. The introductory post mentioned that all work showcased on the site would be created with the intention of being publicly released. The most notable piece, being the theme of this very blog. Yet, here we are and still no theme has been released. Now, this is not due to my decision to reneg on that deal. More simply, it is because the theme was a complete and utter mess that was nearly impossible to release in any way that would be discernible or useful to anyone but myself. In addition, there were many facets of this theme that I felt missed the mark or did not end up working out as planned. Therefore, I took a step back and tackled the redesign of this site 180 degrees from how I initially did. I designed and created the Wordpress theme for public use first and its (tentatively) ready for you to use. Read the rest of this post…

Moving Forward

Posted on 25 August, 2009 at 12:21pm with no comments

Ever since my little work-induced hiatus, I have been trying to wrap up some projects that have been hanging over my head for a while. Releasing coordy was a big step in the right direction. However, when I relaunched this site, I made a big promise that I would release the Wordpress theme for public use. After a month or two of using and maintaining this site in its latest incarnation, it became quite clear that it would be a monumental task to wrap up all the code for public use and that the current theme would be far too rigid and fragile to implement for anyone outside of the person who built it to begin with. Read the rest of this post…

coordy 0.9.1 Released

Posted on 20 August, 2009 at 7:10pm with 3 comments

When I released coordy, I did so with the understanding that there was a lot of growing room left in this library. Unfortunately, time has not been in huge supply for the last few months. However, I have considered it a high priority to push this library to a point where I am happy with it and where it would (hopefully) get some other people to contribute in order to carry some of the load. So, with that in mind, I have added a nice feature to the library that allows you to export the coordinate data of each node in the layout to JSON or XML. You can download the update here. Read the rest of this post…

Introducing coordy – An Actionscript 3 Layout Framework

Posted on 4 August, 2009 at 7:00am with 22 comments

After an extremely long wait, the Layout Organizers I began working on so long ago has finally been released as a full-fledged library named coordy. The code and documentation has finally reached a level of maturity where I feel comfortable offering it up to the public. The code is MIT licensed and begging to be used. Read the rest of this post…

When will the new Layout Organizer library be released?

Posted on 8 June, 2009 at 2:53pm with 5 comments

I have been getting a lot of emails and comments about this and I have rudely not replied to any of them. It is not because I am trying to be rude (I promise), I am just eyeball deep in a large project at the moment. Thus, I have had zero time to work on anything extracurricular, including sleep.

That said, after this project, the layout organizer library and releasing this blog’s theme are going to be my top priorities. Yes, I could release the library right now, but I would prefer to do it right. The project I am working on should be complete around early July, so I would expect the library to be released by mid to late July. This time, library will be released with full documentation, it will be also available as a SWC and it will be released on Google Code so that releases can actually be offered up on a more regular timeline.

I know this is not optimal and I apologize for the lack of updates, but better to just do this right than to hand out a half-ass intermediate release just to release the right way a couple weeks later.

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