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A Quick Update

zy — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:08:50 +0000

Just posting a quick one here to let everyone know that I’m still alive.

I’ve been pretty busy lately as for the past few months, with a never-ending truckload of work thrown at me everyday. Nevertheless, it’s kind of interesting, and frustrating at the same time.

I’ve managed to squeeze some time to work on Arras Theme, which has been updated to 1.4 with many new features targeted for WordPress 2.9. Do check it out here.

Once the theme is almost bug-free, it’s time to move on and work on a new project. Maybe a new WordPress theme?

Just a Quick Update

zy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:56:13 +0000

I do apologise for my ‘disappearance’ for the past few months, as I do not have the time to even read and answer my emails (tons of it).

I have been only able to check out the internet during the weekends for the past few months or so due to my commitments. For now, I am working irregular hours and am still getting used to my job and working schedules.

Hopefully I will have the time to take a look at my projects (especially Arras Theme) and update them.

New Theme…Take Six!

zy — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:01:39 +0000

Finally done up a unique blog design for this website. I intended to continue working on the design aspect of this theme but I accidentally deleted the PSD file.

The portfolio page is still being worked on. I have my works thrown all over hard drives and portable devices, so it will take me a while to consolidate them.

This theme, by the way, is created with the Buffet Framework as the parent theme.

Finished school work, taking a break at the moment!

zy — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:57:52 +0000

Phew, just finished my final year project. I guessed I’m really shagged out right now. Let me take a break from developing stuff for a week or two, before clearing all the stuff ahead of me.

Cheers!

Looking Back, Looking Forward

zy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:36:54 +0000

Year 2008 is coming to an end and a new year is coming. To me, I feel that 2008 was the best year in web development, where I have accomplished many things throughout.

The first half of the year was pretty quiet to me, but the other half was the crazy part. I participated in three competitions, including WorldSkills Singapore 2008 and code::XtremeApps:: . Though I didn’t get anything for code::XtremeApps:: , the highlight of the year was me winning the silver medal for WorldSkills Singapore 2008. It feels rewarding when you have spent years working on web development.

During the course of the year I have also learnt new stuff like Adobe Flex/AIR, Facebook application development, ActionScript 3.0, jQuery and further working into the WordPress API.

So what’s next for the year 2009? I’m currently working on two projects right now, which will be brought forward to the year ahead.

The first is my final year project for my diploma, which is the usage of Flash and ActionScript 3.0 to create an mini social multiplayer browser game.

Another project would be a WordPress theme framework, where I will be working with a friend of mine on its development. We have thought of the name and it is called Buffet. The project page is now available at Google Code and is currently at the brainstorming page. Feel free to request what you want to see in the theme framework, we would appericate it!

Arras.Theme – Gaming Edition will be integrated into Buffet with the release of 1.2 and the same for SteamPress for its 1.0 release, which means that both releases will be delayed until the completion of the theme framework. We hope that we can finish it in mid-February.

Anyway, 2009 will be the year of my graduation but also the year where I will be enlisted in National Service . I certainly hope that will not disrupt in the course of my web development, but I doubt that will happen.

Never mind about that, let’s hope that the year ahead will be a good one for myself and for the world.

Happy New Year everyone!

Site Updated, with New Features

zy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:04:30 +0000

During the moving of the site to my new web host at Media Temple, I have improved and fixed a lot of stuff on this site, including the comments display for WordPress 2.7 over here and some usability improvements.

Another thing to highlight is that the wiki is gone, and has been replaced by a Redmine installation over at http://projects.zy.sg/. Over there you can view any progresses with the two WordPress themes, as well as submitting bugs, features and support requests to any of the projects. You need to register though.

Hope to see some feature requests coming in for both themes (especially for Arras.Theme – Gaming Edition, some of the features for 1.2 BETA have been posted up there too).

And oh yes, happy holidays to everyone!

Moving!

zy — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:36:03 +0000

I’m in the process of moving the stuff over here to a new web host, so don’t panic when you see things not working at this point of time!

Down with Flu…

zy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:23:37 +0000

Yeah it’s certainly not great falling sick at this time of the year. Hope I can get well soon and enjoy my holidays (which has a lot of work to be done).

Just to remind you that WordPress 2.7 is out and you can download it over here: http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/wordpress-27-available-now/.

I’ve upgraded this installation and will do the same to the theme demo. Arras.Theme – Gaming Edition seems to have no issues with this version, but if there are, do let me know by emailing me.

My friend mentioned about ditching WordPress to Sweetcron, simply because he doesn’t have the time to post on his blog, and has been using Twitter instead to post updates. Probably a great idea for me to do the same, maybe work on a couple of themes for that CMS too.

I might be moving this web over to a new hosting company soon, and I’m thinking of MediaTemple. So there will probably be some downtime, which I trying to either completely avoid it or to make it as minimal as possible.