Christmas
Slow blogging month, eh?
That’s right ladies and gents; Owl is still alive, well, and coding. Before we get into business, it would be proper for me to wish you all a merry Christmas. But I shan’t, so let’s get into the meat of this post.
The first thing on everybody’s mind this fine Christmas evening is probably “Owl, Owl, Owl! What didja get! C’mon, tell me!”. This year, I got a fairly basic haul - a few ThinkGeek shirts, some novels, Ajax In Action, and $50 in ThinkGeek gift certificates. I have lots of pictures of the last few days, though. I shall be uploading them soon.
In other news, I bit the bullet and joined the Zetapets development team last month. That and work has kept me pretty busy. Zeta formally announced v3 to the userbase today, so I can talk about it a bit.
My primary charge has been recoding one of the most heavily used portions of Zetapets - the forums. The current forums use SQL incredibly inefficiently, so they are putting a huge load on the database.
The forums are almost complete, finally. The user side is 100% DONEZ0R3D, but the administrative backend is still…lacking. All of the thread operations work (delete/edit/move), but I have not gotten around to post editing / deleting / flagging as moderated yet, nor the forum meta administation (forum ADE & permission manager).
I’ve spent a few hours working on the new register page today, though. It’s pretty hot. It utilized Ajax to do username checking.
<3 Ajax.
So yea. In other news, InfinityB is working on a new (sort of) modular IRC bot written in PHP. It’s the new hotness.
uberuser on 26 Dec 2005 at 4:08 am #
for the record, you’re a furry.
Secondly nice gifts!, and uh, that bot is gay and uh yeah, xmas ftl. hope to see some more blogging in the new year!
Leif K-Brooks on 27 Dec 2005 at 12:03 pm #
IRC bot in PHP? I think I’m going to eat massive quantities of salt, then cry. Hopefully the extra-salty tears will cause me to go blind and I will never have to see that code.
Max on 27 Dec 2005 at 11:23 pm #
You’ll still know what the code says though. Like all us other blind people, you’ll hear it using JAWS or Hal or you’ll feel it using a Braille display. Other things are that a lot of things most people look forward to around my age, like driving, you won’t be able to do. And… You’ll have to spend thousands and thousands of dollars on decent braille displays and software because the companies that sell them are @n@l
Max on 27 Dec 2005 at 11:25 pm #
Also… Owl, me and you aren’t the best of friends, but in February I’m going to need some work done. The pay is reasonable I think. Let me know if interested.
TheRedA on 28 Dec 2005 at 2:50 am #
Merry Christmas Owly!!! ^_^
Remember me? ;)