Maurice Snip

Since I didn’t make a Wordpress template so far, I decided to go with a free template I found at Smashing Magazine a while ago. I have to thank Igor Penjivrag for offering this template, called Cubismo, for free! So, this is going to be the look of my weblog till I’ve designed and developed my own template.

In other news, I recently bought a 15″ Macbook Pro for primarily web development, but also for a whole new user experience in operating systems. I have to admit, Mac OS X works like a charm! A great variaty of (third-party) applications which work like they should and have even better user interfaces. Talking about Mac applications, check back soon for a list of 5 Mac applications worth buying! Sorry!

I know, one and a half month later and still no Wordpress theme. It’s hard to find time to write new articles and design an entirely new Wordpress theme when you’re studying at a full-time basis. Lately, me and my project team have been working on our final assessment, a community driven recommender system based on relations between items. My task is to design and develop the web based administration back-end of the system, with which you can manage the items, tags and relations. Here are two mock-ups of the layout:

The login page uses the final color palette, which is a bit friendlier for the eyes. Knowing myself, I’m sure I’ll tweak the layout here and there to make it look good. If you have any comments, please feel free to post them here.

We’re developing the entire application using the CodeIgniter PHP framework. The Model View Controller (MVC) pattern, also used by CakePHP and Ruby on Rails, makes it easy to rapidly design and develop a web application.