D2Coding

Proud to partner with jhP

jason — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 01:05:28 +0000

Many nice things were said about jones huyett Partners today at the chamber expo, but one quote stood out:

D2Coding Feels Like Part of the Team

It’s wonderful to be able to work with a great group of people and not feel like a “vendor”. Thank you for being an outstanding partner jhP!

Mobile Applications. Delivered.

jason — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:40:01 +0000

It is with great enthusiasm that D2Coding and Michelle Leivan announce the arrival of Stroke of Genius – The Mobile Application. Available for your Android devices, in the Android market!

The Stroke of Genius App takes all the fun of the Stroke of Genius game, and puts it on your phone! Be inspired by an Art Genius’ stroke and the randomly chosen Spark Word, to create your Masterpiece, and become and Art Genius yourself. Continue to inspire others by contributing a stroke of your own that will become the beginnings of another Art Genius’ Masterpiece.

Stroke of Genius is also social. Post your Masterpieces on your Facebook wall and invite others to play Stroke of Genius! Inspire and be inspired by your friends in collaborative Masterpieces!

Spring Cleaning!

jason — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:30:29 +0000

Now that we’re a good way into Spring, we’re doing a little Spring cleaning of our hardware at D2Coding. Upgrading memory in our Mac and archiving off old files. What has your business done regarding Spring cleaning?

Portfolio via Flickr

jason — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:29:24 +0000

We love creating new Flash components, but when we found that Flickr can make slideshows so easily… well, we know our time would not be well spent recreating the wheel. Without further ado, a sample of our portfolio via Flickr.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

We also have portfolios of the work that our artists and programmers completed before joining D2Coding. Be watching for links to their personal portfolios.

Stroke of Genius!

jason — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:53:40 +0000

In a collaboration between Topeka artist Michelle Leivan and D2Coding, we are unveiling a public Beta of the electronic version of Stroke of Genius!

We unveiled the game at the Topeka Arts Symposium April 8th. Thank you ArtsConnect for inviting us to the Symposium!

Please checkout the Facebook page for Stroke of Genius! as well.

There’s not a “help” section to the game yet, but checking out the Tutorial posts will give you a good feel for how the game is played.

Any feedback is appreciated. Thank you for participating in our public Beta of Stroke of Genius!

WordPress Blackberry App

jason — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:25:01 +0000

You can now post to your WordPress blog via your Blackberry.

First, download the WordPress app from the Blackberry application store (free).

Then, from your desktop, log in to your blog and enable XML-RPC from the writing options page (/wp-admin/options-writing.php).

Once you’ve added the WordPress application to your Blackberry, run it, and add your blog by clicking the Blackberry key, and selecting Add Blog. You need your blog URL (http://etc, etc) and your username and password that you use to login to your blog via the wp-login.php page.

The Blackberry app let’s you add categorized and tagged posts, pages, and also manage your comments.

This post was created with the Blackberry WordPress App.

Happy mobile blogging!

Overlooked Google Analytics – Site Overlay

jason — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:02:57 +0000

Just stumbled across the “site overlay” feature in Google Analytics. From the data presented for D2Coding, it’s clear that more visitors are interested in learning about D2Coding in general, that those visitors interested in what we do are three times more interested in our Flash/Actionscript portfolio than our Web 2.0 Technologies portfolio, and that either database/server-side coding is not interesting to them, or the specific technologies are meaningless to them, and so they don’t click on those links.

If you have Analytics, check out your site overlay by clicking the link in the left hand corner.

The site overlay will also give you data regarding your goal conversions, but we have not not included Google Adwords on the D2Coding site, so the data was not useful to this article.

Stateful Flash Slider Navigation

jason — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:40:48 +0000

Flash is sleek and dynamic which allows your client’s customers new ways to interact with their web sites. Below you will find a “slider” navigation component, that can be customized with different pictures, links, text and font colors.

The navigation is considered stateful because it knows which state it should be in for a given page. You will notice that whichever page you are on, that page’s image is displayed in the middle of the slider, no matter where the image was when you left the last page. This makes sense, because often users wonder “Where am I?” on a site, which is why breadcrumbs, were created, and that is why links in some navigations are different colors for the current page.

The blog theme I am using isn’t very flexible, so please click to open in a new window and see this navigation as it could look on one of your client’s sites.

The navigation above can be configured by modifying a text file that configures the navigation item’s image, the item’s url, the caption and within the caption, the text colors. A snippet of the configuration text follows:

images/cliffTree.jpg
cliffTree.html
Cliff Tree - Number One]]>

images/desert.jpg
desert.html
Desert - Number Two]]>

images/forest.jpg
forest.html
Forest - Number Three]]>

The configuration file is simple enough that someone who doesn’t know Flash should be able to modify the navigation to their liking. With some new images and a couple of tweaks to the configuration, you could turn this navigation into completely new looking navigation.

The Difference Between Mocks and Stubs

jason — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:59:59 +0000

Found this Fowler article pretty insightful when thinking about the difference between mocks and stubs. New to the mocking scene, I didn’t understand the difference at first, but the latter part of the portion I have linked to states that Mocks are used to validate behavior whilst Stubs are used to validate state . Looking at the two example tests, the difference between the two types of tests becomes readily apparent. One tests the certain methods fired, and the other tests that properties of an object contain the values that we thought they should be.

http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html#TheDifferenceBetweenMocksAndStubs

Welcome Visitors from LinkedIn!

jason — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:44:07 +0000

To reiterate some of the things you may have read about D2Coding already, our strength is in working with marketing agencies that are looking to expand their electronic offerings to their clients. We excel at creating unique enhancements to web sites using Adobe® Flash® technology as well as integrating new and existing web sites with database content, both of which allow for marketing campaigns to be more interactive with their targeted end-user.

Another strength that may not be readily apparent by our name, is that we are more than "just coders". Yeah, we know our .NET, and Actionscript, but we also know the business you are in as well, and can help with brainstorming ideas and finding creative ways to meet your clients’ needs.

Drop us a line whether by email (jason@D2Coding.com ), phone ((785) 250-5682), or by posting a comment to our site. We are always looking for the exciting opportunities that await us. And take a look around the site. We are adding new content all the time, and currently have 5 posts that are drafted awaiting publication.

Thank you for taking the time to learn more about D2Coding and the ways we can help you grow your business offerings.

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