Rui Madeira

This next weekend (March 13th and 14th) I’ll be giving a workshop entitled “Criar Movimento” at Monstra Animation Festival. I’ll teach principles of creating animation using the open source programming language Processing.
The amount of people interested in this has been quite overwhelming with the workshop being sold out for some weeks now. So hopefully another edition should be around in the near future.

I’m quite excited about this, i’ve been working for the last few days on some interesting examples to talk about.
Should be a lot of fun!

Ruimatic is a simple and clean Wordpress theme I developed to be the foundation of my webpage. It can be downloaded here.

My main goal was to have a clean and effective webpage which would still be as easy as a blog to update. So i delved into Wordpress theme development and, through the articles on Themeshaper, the Ruimatic theme was born.
Lost of elements usually associated with blogs were removed such as comments, sidebar and post metadata.
A very distinctive characteristic is the ability to have post inside pages. To have a post appear in a specific page you simply have to define the post’s category to have the same name as the page. Every time you go to a specific page, Ruimatic Theme will query all posts and display all which have a category with the same name as the page. For example all posts with category “Work” will appear when you visit the Work page. It’s a very simple and effective way to filter where content will appear.
Ruimatic uses templates from the Thematic Theme (hence the name) and requires it to be present.

Launched a new website today. which i’m quite excited about.
Check it here
For a long time now i’ve had a portfolio hosted at CargoCollective. But I wanted a page where i could have more up to date information as well as my works. It was also really important that it would be easy to update. So i delved a little into wordpress theme development and ended up making my own theme base on the Thematic framework.

New blog! Yay!