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Week One Complete!

Dan — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:28:12 +0000

I’ve finished my first week at my new job. It’s a weird sensation. I feel like I’ve been there for quite a while already, but that time has gone by really fast. Maybe it has to do with the fact that i was totally sick for about half the week? The first three days were pretty much getting to know what the company does and how they do things on a very high level. Thursday and Friday were pretty much dedicated to scouring over thousands of lines of C#, ASP.Net, and Javascript to learn how their Consumer site works. Not the most exciting stuff in the world. Everyone is very nice and patient with our questions.

Boy, was i ready for saturday though! I guess my body was still used to sleeping for 10 hours every night. Instead i’ve been up by 7am everyday and out the door by 7:30. Yesterday i finally got to sleep in a bit, lounge around in my PJ’s, and then finally in the afternoon leave the house. Josh and I went up to Louisville so Josh could test drive a Infiniti G35. A very nice car! After that we went and ate pizza and drank beer at Za’s where we met up with some friends, one of whom neither of us had seen in years! After pizza and beer we went and saw Daybreakers, which was ok. It’s nothing to rave about, and I feel the previews mislead the audience to thinking the movie was something else. But exploding vampires are always nice.

Tomorrow starts week two! Hopefully nothing will go wrong, and the roads will stay clear!

AJAX, you’re so confusing!!

Dan — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:33:07 +0000

So, i’ve been building a website for this Paintball team. They seem to do pretty well in tournaments and from what I’ve been told they already have possible sponsors lining up. They want their site ready as soon as possible, but at the same time I don’t want to give them garbage. I want to be able to give them quality software. It’s hard to do sometimes when I’m not even getting paid for it. The deal is we make them a website, and we get free advertising through them, kind of like a sponsorship. But AJAX is being a pain, so it’s easier to just go play eve instead of working..

Maybe i’ll go do that now..

I got the log in system working, so i might as well take a break.. my brain hurts

rss_reader update

Dan — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:51:42 +0000

I made some more changes to the rss_reader plugin I’m writing. I’m foreseeing that it will be totally completed this week, and submitted to the e107 community sometime late this week, or early next week. As long as there’s not already something else out there, i’m sure that people will like it. I mean who doesn’t like aggregating content from other sites?

What the plugin does now:
-Allows users to choose an RSS feed from a dropdown list and have it display on the screen, no page refresh required!
-Admins can remove, edit, and add new feeds for users to choose from.
-Admins can add a menu (widget) which will show the latest feed (only one) from each of active feeds.

What the plugin does not do right now:
-Upgrade properly. If someone has a 1.0 version (which should be nobody), database tables aren’t created when a user would upgrade. I need to find out why this happens, and fix it. This should also eliminate any future problems.

I’ll let you all know when i’ve completed the plugin and have it uploaded to e107Plugins. It will probably be hosted on So!Soft first, which i’ll have to talk to Buzz about.