The Fabrik Blog

igfest: The moosehunt is on!

If you are around Bristol (UK) this weekend, then you could be taking part in Moosehunt at the igfest- thanks in part to Fabrik! Huh? Moose, Bristol, surely not! Have I finally lost my mind? Not at all! Moosehunt is a location based mobile game designed by Simon Evans for Bristol's igfest:

"Moose will be making his autumn migration from the deepest Forest of Dean to Bristol over the week before the festival. Your mission is to find him and photograph him. Text 'moose' to 60300 to receive a map of the moose's current location. But be careful, the moose will be told your location and if he 'shoots' you before you 'shoot' him you are out of the game. Prizes for photographs in various categories including first sighting."

Simon asked me to collect the SMS messages and MMS file uploads and plot them onto a Google map, something for which Fabrik was ideally suited. Its been great fun working on such a off-beat project. Check out the spoof documentary video Simon produced for the game, if only to see the absurd (or perhaps slightly perturbing) costume Simon will be wearing all this weekend.

Published on Thursday, 18 September 2008 08:10
Written by Rob Clayburn

Styling tables

Smashing magazine has a nice article on producing fresh table designs, well worth checking out!

Published on Monday, 08 September 2008 14:26
Written by Rob Clayburn

Free getting started tutorial and 'Creating podcasts with Fabrik'

Hugh Messenger has been a busy in training for the USA's London Olympic's "DA MAN" team ;) This week he has released a free, introductory Fabrik video tutorial. He has also been tweaking Fabrik 1.0.6's RSS feed creation code to allow for the embedding of mp3's as podcasts. Read more about how to create podcasts with Fabrik

Published on Thursday, 28 August 2008 23:41
Written by Rob Clayburn

Fabrik 1.0.6 released

Its been several months since the last release in the 1.0.x series, and while a lot of work has been going into Fabrik 2.0 we haven't been idle with Fabrik 1.0.x either!. So with that in mind I'm pleased to announce the release of Fabrik 1.0.6. This is primarily a bug fix release, however some nice new additions have also been added:

General

We've replaced the old config.php file with its own section in the administration panel. This means that you're settings will be maintained when you update your code.

Forms

You can now use Wordpress's Askimet to check your form submissions for spam. We've simplified the process of making search forms; allowing you to create a form which filters the table defined in that form's jump page.

Elements

An alternative to the Slimbox has been added called Highslide. We have substantially improved the date picker's date handling and formatting, and added the option for users to select the time as well as the date.

Tables

A 'NOT IN', pre-filter conditions has been added. Filter's can now be cleared with the 'clear filter button'. Additionally search form filters are now show in the filter table. Download Fabrik 1.0.6 here. For subscribers the new documentation is also available.

Published on Monday, 28 July 2008 12:53
Written by Rob Clayburn

Joomla Day South Africa - Fabrik presentation

Here are the slides for the Fabrik presentation I made last weekend for Joomla Day South Africa. Underneath should also be a copy of the talk I gave as well.