danbhala.com

Since living in New Zealand for the guts of 7 months I have managed to get a little bit of web development work here and there. Back in Queenstown I did some freelance work for local web development company, Kelpdesign. They took me on for a few weeks and I managed to get a few site’s done for them. Nice bunch of people and I’ll never forget William’s two dogs lounging around the office in front of the gas heater.

The first bit of work was a simple Wordpress website for a local tradesman. They were looking for something quick and it was basically a free theme, some plugins and some content put together.

www.queenstownconcretegrinding.com

The second website on the other hand was a custom design by Kelpdesign and it was for a local construction project management company. I had to convert it to xHTML and CSS and set it up as a Wordpress template. This was the first time I have created a template for Wordpress and it really opened me up to what Wordpress could do. I have created so many templates for Joomla in the past and developing one for another CMS was pretty interesting. This Wordpress template had everything from custom fields and separate layouts that could be assigned to specific pages and categories. As well as clever bits of PHP and nice usage of Wordpress’s API.

www.triplestar.net.nz

Back in 2002 – 2006 I studied Multimedia Programming/Multimedia Systems at the Institute of Art Design and Technology in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin,  Ireland. The course taught us how to use many multimedia applications, one relic being Macromedia Director. Oh where is it now? Well taken over by Adobe for a start

For my final year project, I studied the differences between 2D and 3D simulations. I had to write a pretty large paper and create an application to demonstrate my findings. The amount of hours I put into this project would be far too many to count. Its a pity nobody uses Director anymore!

For my project I decided to focus on traffic simulation and I created this little interactive application. You’ll most likely need to install Adobe Shockwave to get this running! You can view junctions in 3d or 2d ( which was just a top down 3D view ), increase traffic density, rotate camera view in 3D and increase building height.

Its flawed I know, the cars turn into each other sometimes and the 2D view isn’t even true 2D, but lets just put that all aside!

Does anybody use Director anymore? let me know and post any links to anything you’ve developed with it!