Transformers
You know, Optimus Prime may be the best transformer, but Starscream is the fucking coolest.
ALL HAIL MEGATRON
Job Application: Round 3
FIGHT!
Well, we'll see how this one goes. Found another school corporation looking for techs, and this one is hiring for a webmaster. Score. Maybe. Updates to follow.
Also, 2 weeks until vacation! Woo!
Dalaran Fail!
World of Warcraft has been my favorite game for some time now. I've played on and off for almost 3 years, and have played steadily the past year. I love the game, and the social interaction between online friends and guild members. I've devoted my time to working with our guild to make accomplishments with the end-game content, and its been a blast. However, with the new patch, everything's shot to hell. Between not being able to raid, do instances, or even carry on conversations with friends, the 3.0 patch has been a nightmare.
Of all the servers, the Stormstrike battlegroup has been hit the hardest, and Dalaran and Mal'Ganis have it the worst. Since Tuesday, our guild has been able to run one raid, and it was plagued with disconnects and lag spikes. Even questing and doing holiday events isn't enjoyable due to these conditions. When will it end!?
Hopefully, Blizz will have it figured out soon. If not, I'm sure we'll see people leaving from the guild, and I'll be sad to see them go; Though I can't say I blame them. I blame Blizz. I worked hard to build up my rank to an officer in my guild, and I've formed a relationship with many of the other players. We'll see how the next week goes, as it stands it's been almost a week with no relief. Till next time...
Blog Fail!
Well, I've gotten the PHP side of it down. As it stands, I just need to build the admin backend. However, redirects have stopped working. But only in that directory. Same code, same URL, doesn't work there. WTF. So, I'm going to bed. Screw wow, screw PHP, I'll deal with it all tomorrow. Maybe. Or I'll just put it off and use phpmyadmin. At least I can depend on it to work. >.>
New Blog Operational
My new blog is now operational hooray. Still working on the backend at the moment, but the new design and most of the custom content is there. I might dump it to source forge after I write the installer and such. Yay!
LDAP/eDirectory
So, this week I developed a PHP authentication schema using the LDAP functions. This was designed as a modular component, to be reusable throughout further web applications. Also means it's nice and portable. I don't have the code here at the moment, but when I do I'll release. Basically, our script connects to your NDS eDirectory server, and binds anonymously. To incorporate context-less logons, we then search for the provided username (cn) in your organization's tree.
Due to the nature of ldap_search(), you can also use this to require users from a certain tree; aka only your staff (no students), etc. This is just done by specifying OUs. eDirectory requires a TLS connection for encryption between the webserver requesting the LDAP info and the eDirectory server itself. This is nice; provided that you have an SSL connection to the page where your authentication sits, your security is already done for you! passwords will not be sent in plaintext between the NDS and web servers.
This script would be especially useful to those building web applications for use in a Novell environment, but with a few modifications it could work with other LDAP schemas too, including MS Active Directory.
In other news, I reapplied to join Indy Powerplant, and I'm planning on going to the Stompfest LAN Party on Mar 29-30.
Fucking spammers.
So I'm looking at the weekly statistics report for the webserver, and I see 400+ hits on a single post. And I'm like...wtf? So I open it up and there are 300+ bullshit spam comments. Which pisses me off, because it's supposed to be setup to require my approval before any comments are shown. But, they've gotten around that by using trackback pings.
So. Depending on how much this continues, I may have to take my blog offline just because I can't afford the bandwidth these fuckers are taking up. I wish I could bill them for it somehow.
Anyway, this site may go down after a bit. It probably won't be back up unless the spam stops or I finish my script so I can protect it against that. Let me know if anyone has any suggestions. :/
[ASP|Access] Transportation_Web
Hello again, it's been a while since I've thrown out some free code, so here you are! I've been doing a lot of development under ASP and IIS, and this is one of the scripts I built from the ground up. It was designed to help track official changes to our students' transportation methods, but can be adapted to fit almost any project. This is an ASP (Not ASP.NET!) Web interface to an Access Database. It can create, modify, and delete data depending on the user's access level. The super user can modify and create other users in three separate classes. Feel free to use as much of this code as you want without a link back. I would like to know if you use it, and what for if possible, so send me an email or post a comment. Thanks, and enjoy the code!
Download: Transport_Web-2008-02-01_final.zip [32k]
I hate winter.
I love the snow and all, but to hell with getting sick. I've been messed up a bit for a couple weeks now, and yesterday it all just kicked my ass. Ended up taking two days off from work just to sit around on meds to try and clear it up. I hate meds almost as much as I hate being sick. Figures, vicious circle and all that. Well, I've also used these few days to work on a few projects.
In work life, my company is forming a new department, a Web Apps Team, to design, build, and integrate in-house and open source web applications into our existing management infrastructure. Sounds fun right? Well except for the fact that they still haven't figured out what kind of server they're going to give us, sure. I'll post the code to the Transportation thing here in a bit, it's a good example of how to build a basic ASP/MSAccess Database system running on IIS. They've got a few projects in mind for us, so it will be interesting. I haven't heard anything about a pay-raise, but who cares at this point--it's going to look fantastic on my resume: From Desktop Technician to Web Application Developer in less than 5 months? Beautiful.
In the world of IWM Entertainment, the wheels of profit turn slowly. Actually they don't turn at all since I've not done any real work for a while. I had been working with a client for a design piece, but had to drop it because of time constraints. There are currently two projects at IWM that are under some form of development; phpMyBlog which will either be released to soruceforge or sold retail, and phpMyCMS [fuegoCMS]. fCMS is a retail product, and varying versions have been under development for a couple years (I can't seem to stick with the base code and end up rewriting it.) Anyone who wants to help develop on these projects (and thereby split the profits), send an email to admin[AT]intarwebmachine[DOT]com with a resume, or list of skills and sample of your work. We are looking for HTML, CSS designers, experienced PHP/MySQL coders, and platform-level C/C++ developers.
Since I've been physically incapacitated, I figured I'd do some shopping:
- Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 I figured it was about time I upgraded from Jasc PSP7; Nothing wrong with it, but you can always use new software. That and I can't buy a new license for it anywhere.
Price: $ 49.99 @ BestBuy.com
- Lot of 7 Star Wars Books How can I go wrong? $9 for 7 great books, plus shipping. Now at least I'll have something fun to do in my free time aside from loitering around on the Internet.
Price: $ 9.00 @ eBay.com - Foxconn G31MX-K Motherboard Cheap board for my new PC. Dunno if its value is any good, but it was only about $70. Supports my Core2Duo 2.6gHz and my Celeron 3.6gHz, whichever I decide to use. More info below.
- LiteOn DH-20A4P-08 DVD Burner Cheap burner for my new PC. More info below.
And that's about it, except that I started playing Counter-Strike: Source again. You can find me on Indy Powerplant's GunGame server if I'm on, or my local Iceworld DeathMatch Box.
Happy Fraggin'.
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