Soo... it's been awhile.

Been busy with a lot of things.

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First up I finished a website. It is for my guild in World of Warcraft.

http://www.shockwavegaming.net/

Everything was designed and coded by myself. Instead of just doing my thing, I thought it'd be good practice and worked with the members of the guild in making a site they all thought looked good and liked. I also skinned eqDKP and got some experience skinning VBulletin for the first time. I thought the vBulletin skin came out exceptionally well.

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JQuery.

Probably just a tad late to the scene but I've finally gotten around to poking around with it and learning some JavaScript. Was never a big fan but you can really do some cool things. I also need to do some more experimenting and make the plunge with AJAX.

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I consider myself very stupid for not having done this sooner. I finally got around to setting myself up a local test server. Had some fun installing Apache, PHP, and MySQL.

Man the time I've wasted developing the way I used to. Every save: drag, drop, upload. Man I hated it so much but didn't want to edit straight on the server either so I always just stuck with it.

Being able to test everything locally is just simply amazing. (Damn my procrastination.)

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I have a lot of projects on the drawing board so-to-speak, but the one I'm currently working on is a sort of ItemStats replacement. It is no longer managed and every time I set up a new website or do some poking around it causes a mass amount of headaches trying to get it to work.

One major feature that I want to make sure to include that isn't in ItemStats is an easy to use skin / theme system.

A little preview:

Should be fun.

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Lastly, finally got around to watching Lost. It never really peaked my interest enough to go and watch it, but one day I decided to check it out.

So far I'm a few episodes into season 4 having watched seasons 1 through 3. Seasons 1 and 2, I must say, were amazing. One thing I really liked was the way the story was told. The flopping back and forth between flaskbacks and what was going on currently, I really enjoyed.

As I started watching season 3, and the beginning of season 4 the show seems to completely die. The story just went in some terrible directions, a lot of the characters I enjoyed got killed off, and the changes in how the story were told all just made it bordeline unwatchable for me.

You'd think there wouldn't be much difference between flashbacks and flaskforwards, but man did it just seem so much worse. I MUCH preferred seeing bits of the past and how they affected the present, rather than seeing the future and watching the present unravel.

The only major thing that has been consistent throughout the whole series so far that was a major annoyance to me, was the roller coaster the characters were on. They constantly change from me wanting to slap the hell out of them and really being entertained and liking them. One episode a character will just be perfect in a sense and the next they're just obnoxious and annoying. I wish there was more consistency in the characters attitudes and actions. I suppose this could just be a major annoyance because I'm sitting down and watching several episodes at a time, rather than just one a week as if it was airing.

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I hope to do a little face lift to the site soon and overhaul a good portion of the code, but for now that's it.

I'll try and not let this blog collect dust for 6 months again D: Can't believe it's been that long already.

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