Where I work in Brando we got an opportunity recently to work on an interesting project. The project was a website for Qatar based Agency 222. They wanted the site to have as it’s central point a 3D cube. While evaluating the project, it became apparent that the web has reached an interesting point in it’s relationship with 3D. 3D in the Browser Since the days when Director was one of the main web plugins for advanced multi-media projects there has been something of a dearth in 3D capable plugins for the web.

I recently have been thinking about some of the above I’ve seen in some corners I’ve seen in relation to how programmers should learn some different programming languages. The accepted thinking seems to be that learning a couple of languages is advantageous to a developer because: See different ways to solve problems View different tool sets Freshen things up, just in case you get bored Maybe force you to look at how you are doing things in a different light Keep you skill-set strong and up to date I’ve been finding recently though that learning a new programming for website development isn’t generally applicable.

I’ve done a lot of flash video players over the years. Too many. Some had custom interfaces, some used the default flash video component. Others were completely custom, managing the stream events and displaying the video in the vanilla video component. Then Dave came to me with the OSMF Strobe Media Playback component. We had tried the JW Player a couple of times before, but found the per domain price a little excessive outside of large clients.

I recently wanted to insert a class for the case where a menu item has children in Wordpress. There doesn’t appear to be any option to do this in wp_nav_menu function, so I started doing some research. I found out from this article how to add a ’last-menu-item’ css class. This doesn’t quite work for what I wanted though, because the returned data object from Wordpress doesn’t tell you if the current node has children.

Ronan Murphy, Dave Clarke, David Byrne and I recently put a site live for Tour De Picnic. This is a charity cycle to the Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally in aid of Temple Street Hospital. Ronan was doing the cycle and we decided it would be nice to track him on his journey. Thus was born a website that used an iphone, a handy iPhone app called SendLocation, a little lamp coding, google maps api and some html/css/javascript to update Ronans location throughout the trip.