My own manga reader

Feb 10, 2010

Ok, it's more like a book, pdf, online manga, offline manga reader. Why? Because I tried different applications on the market that could allow me to read online manga and I didn't like any of them.

What are the features?

  • 2 zoom levels
  • Ability to create favorites
  • Cool interface.
  • Tablet and phone friendly
  • Will open ZIP files or files in a directory besides the online mangas.
  • Can list all unlicensed mangas from OneManga and favorite them for easy access. (It won't store any file on the actual device)

So far the requirements are Android 1.5 and that's it. Maybe in a near future I may have to drop support for it as it can't handle multiple device densities correctly.

When and "how much"?

When it gets to a stable point and It will only be ad supported as I can't sell applications from within Canada.

Here's a very alpha screenshot showing the list from OneManga.com
 

Update Feb 20, 2010
New screenshot showing a more finished UI.

Cleanr Administration Theme

Nov 23, 2009

Last night I released the first version of Cleanr, a Drupal administration theme that tries to make the interface more simple and clean. This theme was mostly created for site maintainers, usually clients that don't know much about Drupal but need to work with it everyday. The main goal is to improve Drupal administration UX the most I can. Here are some screenshots of the first version of the theme:



_Administer page with an error message_


_Collapsible fieldsets_

Create your own node submission form

Nov 03, 2009

A lot of times you have to make the node/add page look just the way you want, and you usually start complaining that it's technically impossible with Drupal. There are a lot of techniques for this but I will be talking about one in particular which is creating your own little module that does the job.

Creating a module? Isn't that really hard?

Not really, it's simpler that it sounds and in this case it won't have more than 60 lines of code.

Our module will be called Apply, and it will basically show a form so users can apply for something. It will create a node based on a custom node type we will create.

  1. Go to sites/all/modules
  2. Create a folder called apply
  3. Create 2 files: apply.module and apply.info

Drupal modules list

Oct 29, 2009

This past monday I met a couple of Drupal developers and people who are actually interested in learning Drupal. The group was a nice mix of people sharing experiences and others trying to keep up and learn the most they can. It felt great, seeing what people expect from Drupal and what people have done with it, or what do they use Drupal for, but they all had one thing in common, it's always hard to find good modules or the one that you really need.

In Drupal you can take the same task in many different ways, the problem is when you get to the point where you realize that you should have chosen the other one. And here's an example.

So, this is my approach on reviewing some Drupal modules to let users know what kind of things you can do with them.

Let's start: