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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.
WSI Approval
After discussing a few ideas with wasted and bobl from whatpulse, the approval was given to go ahead and start working on a Whatpulse signature image. Originally it was located a seperate entity as a subdomain on the site, than moved to another server and went through a couple years of changes. For reasons unknown the project appears to be dying quite quickly on the private server and with a bit of collaboration its about time to bring it back to the public.
I’ve had quite a few issues regarding the old/current system involving the x/y coordinate system (who the fuck would want to set that by hand?), complexity of uploading your own background images, and the lack of integration within the official whatpulse site; which has more or less pushed me to want to start and finish this project completely. We’re first going to be figuring out the way to best going about the system as well as integration, while thats active we’ll be collecting user-submitted background images that we can use for default purposes.
I’m married!
I attempted to keep the news as covered up and on the down-low as possible, but thanks to my new wife everyone shall know. April 03 of 2009 me and my beautiful Jessica finally tied the knot. As per our distaste on the unnecessarily long process of planning, arrangements, and headaches we decided to just have a simple legal marriage in downtown Chicago. I was able to get the proper paperwork in and get off-base and out of class for Friday, and wake her up as a surprise early morning. As to my surprise the whole process of obtaining the license and having the legal ceremony wasn’t the typical hate-spree that you would endure at any time you’re visiting a public legal office, and the people were even remotely intelligent (and American). Having the opportunity to spend time with her for the weekend was absolutely amazing, even though it was too short (like always). I expect to be out of Great Lakes in July and she’ll graduate in November so it’ll be nice to have her come live with me on base and enjoy life.