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Whatpulse Stat API
I noticed that after I posted this article about my own personal api, the api itself actually sucked. So I went through the message boards and wrote one as close as possible to what the people wanted with the data that is currently provided (I’m still trying to convince wasted that there’s more data that should be displayed, and figure out a way of how to display it appropriately). The new api has the ability to display stats ranging from user, team, user+team, and team member format. You can check it out here: Whatpulse API.
This weekend I’ll be working on libble.com’s irc eggdrop and tying in the available modifications provided by the gazelle development team. We’re going to add a necessary ‘annoucement’ mod, as well as try and write our own ‘invite’ mod which will enable users to more simply invite awaiting members. We’ve also been toying around with a mixtape request page, which will not only allow the users to vote on what artists and singles to be included in the released mixtape, but the album art and other areas of the mixtape release.
I’ve also noticed that TorrentCoil has been suffering a bit of the bland-blues. After my little stint with Ajax and cheggit.net’s comment system (which so far is on hold) I figured it’d be neat to do a little sprucing up of my current sites. Since gortfm.net is permanently on hold, I decided that a few modifications to torrentcoil will be a nice addition, perhaps even fix a few existing issues.
Another boring weekend
Coming at you live from NAVSTA Great Lakes: boredom. I’d like to thank my fellow Sailors who are joining me this weekend in Duty Section 3’s duty weekend for this month, as well as everyone else who has done absolutely nothing remotely stupid in which keeping this weekend completely dull. I guess you can consider a boring weekend a weekend much better off than a weekend with people coming back with ARI’s (alcohol related incidences) and the likes. I’ve been chosen by some good-grace to come under the influence of a horrible flu-like virus started right after Sick Call hours were over so I’ve been left with some Arizona tea and tylenol sinus & allergy. Oh, and I have chow-relief 1000-1100 & 1600-1700 Sunday :/
Onto a more happy topic, I did manage to get my weekend steak (something I’ve tried to do instead of going out every weekend downtown Chicago and getting fucked up), I actually managed to get about $4 worth of beef tip steak (steak is steak man) and I ran into a few guys out on the smoke deck that had some left-over mesquite wood chips that they were happy to get rid of. According to Jessica, the visit to the GYN went well, she made a follow-up so that her lucky little butt can go and see the ultrasound, hear the baby’s heartbeat AND get a date for our child’s birth. I couldn’t be anymore jealous/excited/tripped-out than I am now, and it’ll probably only get even more overwhelming when she gets a hold of me Friday and tells me what she’s heard and shows me the ultrasounds. I know I still have to get the pictures up, and I’ll be doing that tomorrow (I finally un-fubar’d the phone this week), so watch out for those.
Weekend of Code
After doing a bit of number-crunching, I’ve decided that its probably best if I stayed on base a bit more than what I’m normally used to. Financially I’m now responsible for not only myself, but for a wife AND a soon-to-be newborn. I believe that after restricting my recreational activities off-base, and not living too-lavishly until I get to my next command, I can safely assume I’ll be quite sound money-wise to set up off-base living and even a car (thats in the works as we speak). I think Jessica and I have decided that Portland, Oregon is where we’re going to rest our heads when I get out of the service.
I was working on a few projects this weekend. I managed to foobar Torrent Coil something aweful and ending up having to rewrite a chunk of the main script. I ran into a huge problem with GoRTFM regarding sessions and the error-system I was writing for it, so I’ve stopped development completely for gortfm until I can pull something out of my ass in that regard. I did manage to work on my weather script, as well as incorporate Bluesome’s Exec-PHP plugin (found here). Now you’ll see awesome weather stats for Amherst and Great Lakes on the top of the right-sidebar, you can even click the link and enter your own area-code in to see your weather stats live (dorky, I know). I also started working on a small project for Cheggit.net, currently working on making the comment-system a bit more lively using ajax, stay tuned for that.