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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.
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.
Tis a sad day
I realized it today after I finished creating Jessica and I’s bank account that one year ago today I smoked my happiness for the last time. Kind of weird thinking about it, especially if you knew how it was back home before I enlisted. I’ll never forget the days prior just greening myself out, and my last day in which I ended up in a oxygen-deprived coma. I always wished they’d legalize it so we’d all be able to enjoy more, and now that I can’t touch the stuff they’re seriously considering my wish.
Although its pretty depressing not being to smoke anymore, I’ve definitely taken the situation in a different light now that things are looking (generally) up. As much as some of us would’ve enjoyed just staying home and getting high all day, eventually that will get old and I think I realized that at the right time. I wouldn’t trade the decision for the world though, without it I wouldn’t have the job security, benefits, and (the best part) a loving and beautiful wife to show for it. Hopefully when I get out I’ll be able to secure a steady and well paying job, and get back a part of life I miss a lot.
**UPDATE**
I did a bit of editing a while back regarding TorrentCoil and an issue with the parsing from individual sites. When I first requested a few quick sets of regex from buddies online to get the site running and did what I could with them. Unfortunately, these sets weren’t exactly live-enabled and have since hindered the site’s main use. The editing I performed just got rid of the sections of data that the regex were fubar’ing, and I noticed that in doing so the hits on the site dropped dramatically. After reviewing that information, I ventured to my site and found that absolutely no data was returned whatsoever. As of today I reset the site back to a later date (before the changes were made) and everything is returning properly (including the errors returned due to the regex). I’ve already requested a few buddies give me a hand and I should have the site fully operational by Friday.