July 02, 2003
Recent Entries
Finally a new entry. Ken at Breaking Windows asked for a script to dynamically populate drop downs based on the value in another drop down. I have wanted to do this for some time, so I checked around and found some examples in javascript. After learning how it worked and adding some MT tags, I was able to turn it into a template for my site. You can see the script in action to the left. It pulls the categories from MT and populates the first drop down. The second drop down is populated when a category is selected. Ken has posted an article on his site with instructions on how to use the code. Link. Feel free to use this script. If you do, let me know. If you find any bugs, let me know. I will be updating it soon and will post here when I do.
June 02, 2003
Updated RSS Feed Script
I just updated my RSS Feed Script a little. Now it only shows the first 20 characters of a title. My next update will be to put everything in a class and change up options so users can select the number of characters to display and add some more functionality. After that, I'll make a higher level class and a web form to submit links to a db and cache titles so outside pages aren't hit as often.
Just updated the file so it's now a class and I can choose how many characters to show in the title.
April 23, 2003
Hosting Problems
Well, I'm having hosting problems again. I registered a new domain name and it seems that the DNS hasn't propagated yet. It's been a few days since I submitted the changes. I think I may be switching web hosts this weekend. I need to find something where I have more controll and that has better customer service. If anyone actually reads this and has any suggestions, let me know.
April 09, 2003
Working on a mod
I'm currently working on a mod for UT2003 with a group from Bowling Green State University. We don't have a website up, but alot of the art is done for now. I'm working on the scripting for our new weapons/items system. Bill up in Toledo is working on gameplay and we have someone else working on the HUD. I'm doing this for fun, but the guys in BG are actually getting class credit for it. Hopefully we will have something playable by the end of the semester(May 2003).
March 21, 2003
Template
I accidently copied over my main page template, which was the only one I had done. I'll be working on my site this weekend(maybe) and try to get things back up. I'll also be adding some of the scripts that I have done. If you see anything on this site that you'd like to be able to do on your site. Drop me a line and I'll hook you up with something.
Back to work.
March 19, 2003
Finally Moved
I finally got my site moved over to the new server at featureprice.com. Seems like they've been having alot of problems lately, but the issues are now being worked out.
Later.
February 26, 2003
PHP, XML and RSS
Ken let me know about RSS to feed data from one site to another. I wrote a PHP script to add links to recent posts form other pages to my column over to the right. It's not completely finished, but I'll keep working on it so stay tuned for an update.
February 25, 2003
Playing With CSS
Been playing with CSS since this site uses it often. I've also been mixing up javascript and php along with the movable type tags. It's fun using all these technologies and making them work together. Of course I'm not a designer, I'm a coder, so please let me know if you have any design tips for me regarding fonts, colors, etc... That's all for now.
February 24, 2003
Playing With Time
I'm checking the time setting for the weblog. I'm not sure if I choose the correct one in the config.
Edit - Looks like the time is set correctly. I don't remember making that first post at 2:30 am though.
February 22, 2003
First Weblog
I just installed MovableType. I will be playing around with it for a while until I know what to do and how to make it nice. You can check out Ken's site. He's the person that told me about MovableType. I guess that's all for now.