Blueberryware

Howdy, I’m Adam Hunter. Welcome to my blog called Blueberryware. What on Earth is that you ask? It’s a blog centered around web developement and SEO with PHP, WordPress, and the Zend Framework, though sometimes I’ll digress to interesting things on the internet. Blueberryware is the term I’ve used to coin my WordPress plugins. It’s also a brand of dishware from Maine. All of the software posted here will always at least be GPL, so browse and download at your leisure. Thanks for visiting!

I haven’t had any entries here in a while.  To be honest, I have become a full time Ruby on Rails programmer and I’ve spent a lot of my free time doing freelance for (for example the nice lady at Personalized Chopsticks, or the showering twitter app, Showwer).  I wanted to put a post up here because I have received a few comments asking for a Zend Framework – WordPress plugin example and I wanted them to know its coming.  If anyone has any suggestions for what sort of plugin they would like me to make as an example, let me know in the comments.  Also, I figured I’d throw it out there that the iPhone 3.0 beta is pretty neat so far.  (As long as you don’t mind restarting your iPhone twice daily).  Thanks all!

As a side note, Safari 4 Beta is apparently not totally compatible with the WSIWYG in WordPress…

This site has a preprinted PHP array of US states.  Its very handy when you need to add a state selector to your application.  Just thought I’d share that tidbit.

Digg this please! The downloads for Chromium are at the bottom of the page.

Now that Google Chrome for Mac finally as a face, I figured I would download and build it.  Using the instructions on the Chromium Mac build page I created a build of Chromium.  While I am sure there will be many changes to the appearance, this is a nice preview.  Click on the Chromium Mac screen shot for a bigger image.

Chromium Mac Screen Shot

Continue reading Google Chrome Mac…

I just finished the first iPhone app I have written “on my own” (ie using Apple’s sample code). Just a proof of concept app like the Backgrounds app that already exists, but it uses pages (the dots at the bottom) and allows you to save the wallpapers to your iPhone pictures so you can set the images as your wallpaper. I used the sample thumbnails from my favorite webcomic’s (Hijinks Ensue) iPhone wallpapers.

Wow.  I have no idea how the authors did this, but they compressed 2,000 pages worth of information into only 500 pages.  I can usually read 800 page programming books in two or three days, but this book took me five days.  Excellent material, from beginner to intermediate.  The only thing I could say is that this book left me wanting more, and not because anything was missing, but because this book covered so much information, and there is still more to learn.  My only complaint was that it didn’t touch on URL schemes for app to app data transfer with the iPhone or Network I/O.  Thankfully the book made sure I was fully aware of the documentation browser in Xcode so I can read up on these subjects.  Just my two cents, but Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche, five stars!  Check out Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK on Amazon.  I will be starting a new blog about the iPhone and my experiences developing for it since this blog is PHP and web development oriented.  I’ll post the link as soon as its up.