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Matthew1471's ASP
Went to the cinema with Dan on Friday, Dan thought he'd get out of being scared by watching "The Grudge" instead of the exorcist.. haha not a hope in hell my friend "It's got Sarah Michelle Gellar in it"... unfortunately she's a little clichéd for me but all the same "It's a horror" he assured me...
By the end of it Dan warned me sternly, any usage of sound effects or quotes from that film would entail me walking home and invalidating a lift with him... So just wait till Monday boys and girls
Today was a very very "non working " day, I don't know what came over me, I just physically couldnt bring myself to work... So as I was discussing a few ideas on what might be "the killer idea" for the Sixth Form Year book, I noticed my sloppy code on the OPI System and so spent a few hours reprogramming that (It's kinda hard demonstrating something when it's screwed)
Basically here is the idea I had, maybe putting in the year book a unique username / Id for each person, so then in 20 odd years time (provided I havnt screwed something up) fellow pupils can login and pull all the current info about that certain username... The flaw... I cant think of a way to create all these users without someone being able to hack into them nor can I get every single one of a few hundred people to sign up to the service (all asking questions lazily on route)... It'd kinda be a friends reunited database, only I wouldn't charge �10 for a lousy e-mail address... The OPI system was programmed before BlogX even was (Just by looking at how sloppy and poorly programmed it was gave that away, that and the fact I had to do 2 hours "tidying") and ok so it looks ugly, and maybe the Windows Client shouldnt assume you have internet when you power up your PC (Lukcy NTL Cable users like myself do, but I should really make it ISDN compatible) I can't see demand for people rushing to OPI though, just like people dont rush to backup their data till after a failure, people wont want to rush to OPI to find friends till their lost... Still the year book might be a good implementation and is open to discussion, i'll pass the idea to the powers that be (Depending on how passionate I feel about the idea on the day) and we'll see where that goes..
Jen started blogging http://theteenforum.co.uk/wonderfuljen/ because I was getting rather concerned that only about 75% of users are downloading, trying out my blog and using it, which means there's definitily room for improvement, so she gave it a spin and became BlogX fluent in minutes only asking one question, to prevent that one question being asked ever again I included a mini tutorial entry in the database explaining the first thing people overlook "What's my username/password" naturally it's in the readme, but who ever reads them? I just make the readme for the fun of it, It's not like I expect anyone to actually read it
or even that that's the first place they should even look when they don't know the password..
The first thing Jen commented on was the style of BlogX, she just didn't think it was hip or fashionable (I think she was trying to say it's too formal), true to life I agree with her, My lack of style isnt even debated.. however once she actually started blogging herself and I pointed her in the direction of the templates she practically convinced herself that there were 2 templates she really loved... (Sarah's Template and Dan's Palm tree one) see that alone made me feel democratic, the fact i've asked several people for ideas on themese and carried them out.. Of course BLogX downloaders are welcome to make their own themes and based on the "Who Uses BlogX" I've seen complete hacks of BlogX to fit it in with their own obscure sexy sleek site design, through to the NAV on the left instead of the right (hey whatever tickles your fancy) to minor cosmetic changes. Even if people hate the design of it, it's such a (in my opinion of course) comprehensive Blog package that it's impossible to program something better from scratch without a lot of time on your hands (BlogX will celebrate it's 1 year aniversary on Janurary 21st 2005).
So a few changes have been made which I hope are welcomed, a demonstration BlogX entry explaining how to use it.. and all my theme templates added to the ZIP file (Pushing up the file size a little bit, but I'm hoping people will thank me in the long run)
The next big developments will maybe be a "Emoticon Image Library" (RadicalPuppy4's idea) and then something from my personal wishlist, a Palm entry creator (i'm swinging more towards records being stored on the Palm, Hotsync'd then being read and uploaded on the host pc rather than submission via GPRS/WAP now... purely out of the fact I can be more bothered to HotSync than link up my phone constantly, but eventually both will be appreciated).. Somepoint in the near future it would be an idea to actually maintain a BlogX checker for the "Who Uses BlogX" page as I can't maintain the links manually anymore, so just a simple check for a status code other than 404 when asking for the "Application.asp" page should be substancial...
I've had running the background for the past 4 hours, each of the Dance Dance Revolution MEGAMIX 's, I know mad lil old me.. some songs I hear though and I just have to skip them but other than that it's been quite a Japanese/Korean DDR evening
Tomorrow im hoping to see Hannah when she comes back from doing her odds and ends, but I don't think it'll happen somehow... so I suppose tomorrow I really will start my work.
By the end of it Dan warned me sternly, any usage of sound effects or quotes from that film would entail me walking home and invalidating a lift with him... So just wait till Monday boys and girls
Today was a very very "non working " day, I don't know what came over me, I just physically couldnt bring myself to work... So as I was discussing a few ideas on what might be "the killer idea" for the Sixth Form Year book, I noticed my sloppy code on the OPI System and so spent a few hours reprogramming that (It's kinda hard demonstrating something when it's screwed)
Basically here is the idea I had, maybe putting in the year book a unique username / Id for each person, so then in 20 odd years time (provided I havnt screwed something up) fellow pupils can login and pull all the current info about that certain username... The flaw... I cant think of a way to create all these users without someone being able to hack into them nor can I get every single one of a few hundred people to sign up to the service (all asking questions lazily on route)... It'd kinda be a friends reunited database, only I wouldn't charge �10 for a lousy e-mail address... The OPI system was programmed before BlogX even was (Just by looking at how sloppy and poorly programmed it was gave that away, that and the fact I had to do 2 hours "tidying") and ok so it looks ugly, and maybe the Windows Client shouldnt assume you have internet when you power up your PC (Lukcy NTL Cable users like myself do, but I should really make it ISDN compatible) I can't see demand for people rushing to OPI though, just like people dont rush to backup their data till after a failure, people wont want to rush to OPI to find friends till their lost... Still the year book might be a good implementation and is open to discussion, i'll pass the idea to the powers that be (Depending on how passionate I feel about the idea on the day) and we'll see where that goes..
Jen started blogging http://theteenforum.co.uk/wonderfuljen/ because I was getting rather concerned that only about 75% of users are downloading, trying out my blog and using it, which means there's definitily room for improvement, so she gave it a spin and became BlogX fluent in minutes only asking one question, to prevent that one question being asked ever again I included a mini tutorial entry in the database explaining the first thing people overlook "What's my username/password" naturally it's in the readme, but who ever reads them? I just make the readme for the fun of it, It's not like I expect anyone to actually read it
or even that that's the first place they should even look when they don't know the password..The first thing Jen commented on was the style of BlogX, she just didn't think it was hip or fashionable (I think she was trying to say it's too formal), true to life I agree with her, My lack of style isnt even debated.. however once she actually started blogging herself and I pointed her in the direction of the templates she practically convinced herself that there were 2 templates she really loved... (Sarah's Template and Dan's Palm tree one) see that alone made me feel democratic, the fact i've asked several people for ideas on themese and carried them out.. Of course BLogX downloaders are welcome to make their own themes and based on the "Who Uses BlogX" I've seen complete hacks of BlogX to fit it in with their own obscure sexy sleek site design, through to the NAV on the left instead of the right (hey whatever tickles your fancy) to minor cosmetic changes. Even if people hate the design of it, it's such a (in my opinion of course) comprehensive Blog package that it's impossible to program something better from scratch without a lot of time on your hands (BlogX will celebrate it's 1 year aniversary on Janurary 21st 2005).
So a few changes have been made which I hope are welcomed, a demonstration BlogX entry explaining how to use it.. and all my theme templates added to the ZIP file (Pushing up the file size a little bit, but I'm hoping people will thank me in the long run)
The next big developments will maybe be a "Emoticon Image Library" (RadicalPuppy4's idea) and then something from my personal wishlist, a Palm entry creator (i'm swinging more towards records being stored on the Palm, Hotsync'd then being read and uploaded on the host pc rather than submission via GPRS/WAP now... purely out of the fact I can be more bothered to HotSync than link up my phone constantly, but eventually both will be appreciated).. Somepoint in the near future it would be an idea to actually maintain a BlogX checker for the "Who Uses BlogX" page as I can't maintain the links manually anymore, so just a simple check for a status code other than 404 when asking for the "Application.asp" page should be substancial...
I've had running the background for the past 4 hours, each of the Dance Dance Revolution MEGAMIX 's, I know mad lil old me.. some songs I hear though and I just have to skip them but other than that it's been quite a Japanese/Korean DDR evening
Tomorrow im hoping to see Hannah when she comes back from doing her odds and ends, but I don't think it'll happen somehow... so I suppose tomorrow I really will start my work.
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