Monthly Archive for April, 2006

I’ve got some big exams coming up very soon and the amount that I have been studying for them is, well let’s say less than what I want it to be, so I’m afraid I’m going to have to hold all developments (yes, including the iPodLinux Flash animation) until a couple of weeks from now where they will remain slow because after the exams that are coming up (within the next two weeks), I have a couple of weeks of break before I have more exams, and then a couple of weeks again until I have final exams. I wonder if I said “exams” more in this article or “weeks” more… Erm, turned out to be the same…

Edit: I updated the link to RandomDragoon’s site and I also added his blog.  That’ll be the last thing for a while…

I have a new feature on my site. It lists the title of the latest blog entry and links the title to the article. Although I previously haven’t done much with MySQL and PHP, I spent a little time learning how to connect to the database, get what I want, and then read from it. Overall, it was a nice little programming challenge for myself. I think I succeeded, but I have yet to see the bugs that will probably occur sometime soon.
Speaking of programming challenges, I’m thinking of starting a little pet project called Sandbox. Basically, I find it kind of annoying that if I’m not at my home computer and I want to work on some PHP, I have to go to CPanel to create or edit a script. CPanel is so slow and cumbersome for this task, however. So, I’m thinking of writing a piece of web software that will give me a mini interface for just what I need. Sandbox will have the ability to edit any file within a single directory, create new files in that directory, upload files to that directory, CHMOD files in that directory, and a few other functions too. My goal would be to keep it very fast and very easy. This would allow me to develop stuff on the road. I think that I would write it in PHP.
As it stands now, I’m having a bit of trouble with MoPiD2… The biggest issue is simply the GUI. I want to use Python because it’s what I know and love, but the GUIs for it are not that great. wxPython is awesome, but it’s not very compatible with Linux (and I’m guessing even less so with Mac OS X). So, that left me with Tkinter, the GUI built into Python. Tkinter has a variety of options but is pretty complicated and porting the MoPiD source code would be harder than just rewriting the whole thing (well most of it anyways. If I do manage to get MoPiD2 working, I’m going to need to spend a lot of time also getting it to work well in Linux and Mac OS X. I’m not going to attempt to do anything with Mac OS 9 or earlier, but if anyone wants to try, be my guest.
Okay, that was all to prove that I’m not dead… Just extremely busy. I don’t expect to update this site for about three weeks from now, but know that I’m still here.
And on a final note, I have been looking at my statistics quite a bit lately. After MoPiD was released, a huge number of visitors have come to my site. It’s kind of funny when you look at the graph.

Edit: Why is my site generating over a thousand errors with the W3 Site Validator!?!?!?  Argh, I’ll fix that later…