Category: Web

T -60 Days and counting

I wasn’t going to post about this for a couple of weeks, but…

Is anybody interested in hiring a web developer with 4 years experience in the video game industry? There’s probably going to be a blue-haired-freaky one available to start in early July, (or possibly sooner.)

Sucky way to end the week, but at least I got some warning.

can any php/regex guru’s help me?

I need some help with a small php function problem:

I need a function that does the same thing as pathinfo() [Link] until such time as I can brow-beat someone into upgrading the version of php being used on the server a site I’m working on is going to be published to.

From the function reference found here, it seems like it should be relatively simple to solve using regular expressions. I’m going to take a crack at solving the problem myself, but I thought it wouldn’t hurt to ask for help here as well.

Edited on Apr 1st 2003, 01:07 by Hooloovoo

Edited on Apr 2nd 2003, 17:27 by Hooloovoo

Caveat Lector, meet GLUE

I’ve begun work on making “House of Blues” and “Stormy Night” XHTML Compliant (for SuperGLUE – and becasue I should tweak them anyway.)

Last night, (while fighting with CVS,) I was thinking about creating a theme based on Caveat Lector (minus the photo on the left. (I think I have one of my own I can replace it with.)

I want to do it because I think it might be fun to try something a little different, and Dorothea says I can. =) Work on that will commence after I finish the XHTML conversion and style sheet tweaks on the 2 themes mentioned above. (No, Zhaneel, I haven’t totaly forgotten about your feedback.)

Anyway, just thought I’d blog my idea so I’m more likely to actually do it, (or so someone else can beat me to it.)

Edited on Feb 21st 2003, 01:42 by Hooloovoo

Attack of the Killer Nested Tables

I took a major step backwards in my attempts to write better structured HTML at work today. I’ve resorted to using a few nested tables in a layout that I’m currently working on. The reasons are “ehh”: time allocated to the project (almost none), possible future replacement of the navigation with flash will be easier (I think), working from a mock up done by a print designer (print != web).

I can’t help but feeling like I’m moving back towards 1999/1998 with this layout. So much code to display so little content… This layout leaves a bad taste in my mouth. (It’s either that, or the salt bagel I just ate…)

-Hool

Just got this announcement in my Inbox:

[Quote]
Greetings,

W3C switched today its home page to a full CSS layout instead of the
previous table-based one. See:
http://www.w3.org/

The techniques used in this layout has been documented at:
http://www.w3.org/2002/11/homepage
It is basically realized through the float property.

As you may know, using CSS for horizontal layout has some important
benefits:
– respect of the HTML semantics (tables are really for tabular data)
– better accessibility
– better device scalability

The downside is that some non-CSS2 aware browsers do not render it as
intended; the page keeps completely readable though.

The W3C Communication Team is interested in hearing comments on this
change on the publicly archived mailing-list site-comments@w3.org
[Quote]

Kinda cool

Fun with PHP/MySQL

I’m probably way more proud of this than I should be, but look what I just made!

True, it’s no g-blog.net – but it is technically my first database driven website that hasn’t relied on pre-written packages.

I mentioned a project I was going to use to get started writing database-driven sites a LONG time back. This isn’t it, but I’m now one step closer to finishing that.

goes back to futzing with his lame joke database…

(Hey Gossip, how about a “Coding/PHP” category? It could replace “Computers/Programming” which is redundant with “Coding”. Yeah, I know I’m the one that asked for “Computers/Programming” originally – but I didn’t see “Coding” for some dumb reason.)

Edited on Nov 22nd 2002, 17:53 by Hooloovoo

Somebody slap me.

I spent most of yesterday working on a nifty little php script for work…

When I was testing it, I was running into all sorts of odd behavior and I got tired of trying to de-bug it. I put it up on my website so I could work on it over the weekend.

I just spent the last hour or so breaking the script from a single php file into 6. I thought my scheme for having the different steps the script goes through as functions controled by a variable called $stage was somehow flawed, since in some cases I was making the script pass arguments back to itself via the URL. Or something – I wasn’t exactly sure what was wrong. It was buggy and needed to be fixed.

THEN I see that I’m using “=” instead of “==” to check what “stage” I’m on in the master control structure that determines which function to do.

OF COURSE the statement

if (stage = 1) {
doStepOne;
} elseif (stage = 2) {
doStepTwo;
…

is going to always have me doing step 1…

GAH! I r stupid.

Now the question is, do I go back to my single php page design, or keep working on the multi-page one?

Edited on Oct 27th 2002, 07:49 by Hooloovoo

Edited on Nov 22nd 2002, 17:56 by Hooloovoo