It would be so much easier to keep my project RSS feed up-to-date if I actually updated every time I released a mod, instead of doing it 3 – 6 months later. ^^;

What’s sad, is that it seems to be getting a lot of use. Pretty funny for something I rarely think of. Anyway, still working on moving my eFiction mods here for my portfolio. I got that horribly long story disclaimer mod added this morning and

I wonder if I should include my fanlisting script? That’s entirely stand-alone, though not the prettiest in terms of code. It’s something I made just to see if I could do it, so it’s technically my first script that’s 100% mine.

Need to figure out how I’m going to hook up the screenshots in my portfolio too.

I guess this layout is as complete as it’s going to get. I need to move on to the rest of my project.

I don’t think I can take another 3am bedtime tonight, so I’m going to call it quits. There are still some things that need to be finished, like the blog comments, but I’ve been chasing CSS bugs for most of the day.

I also added screenshots of my eFiction skins and moved a few of my eFiction mods to their posts here. Next thing I have to do is figure out how I’m going to display my portfolio and other items in that section. I wonder if links to DeviantArt would be appropriate? I tried nearly every gallery plugin and they were so buggy, I didn’t want to mess with them anymore.

Next up, I need to format my resume so it will work in an online format. And finally, I think I should be done.

Yeah, I know this whole rush is partially my fault. I slacked off over at Gaia Online’s Official Naruto thread for most of this class, instead of working ahead so this wouldn’t happen to me.

Oh well, I guess. Someday, I’ll learn.

Ugh, it’s amazing how quickly a night goes when you have homework due and the deadline is ticking down. ^^;

It’s suddenly 3:00am. I swear just 20 minutes ago it was midnight.

I found the coolest plugin, so now I can host all my modifications here too. I already have Last Visit 3.0 done. So that’s going to be really cool.

Anyway, please bear with me. I have some final things to fix tomorrow and this layout should be complete.

I’m using this site for my final project for my portfolio class. Since I’m majoring in web design / development, my portfolio needs to be online or in another medium that’s easily shared. I really don’t feel like having a third site I need to keep track of, so redo this one it is.

Stuck on the design, but there isn’t too much I can do on getting a good photo right now. I need to get an ecommerce design done too much the end of next week.

Fun fun.

I’m feeling rather proud of myself right now. I just completed a script to handle my fanlisting codes and I’m thrilled to say it’s working exactly the way I planned. ^_^

Looking at the page, you wouldn’t see anything that truly different. My images will all appear to load normally. But if you look at the image’s URL, you’ll see it’s PHP rather than an image. *huge grins*

For those technically inclined, the script basically first checks to see whether or not the image is being accessed from my blog. If it is, the script progresses and serves the image being called. However, if someone tries putting the image as part of their signature on say — Xanga or Gaia Online — the script will first log the attempt and then terminate.

To make it easier on myself if someone figures out how to circumvent the script, I even stored the fanlisting code directory in an array. That way if I need to move or rename the folder, I only have to edit just that particular line and every code will be changed.

I’d still like to add a few more security checks, but right now this is awesome. There are times I feel like I’ve learned nothing new in college and then I completely surprise myself by doing something like this.

I have no real problem with people using stuff, but I’m awful protective of my bandwidth. My baseline server costs are plenty without overage charges. Besides, they can download the fanlisting codes on the fanlisting site and use photobucket. It’s just stupid.

College is going well. I got 100% on my first speech — talk about awkward, though. I’m not used to web cameras, so I stared at my monitor the whole time. XD I was so wooden too!

I really need to get around to calling my academic adviser, but I keep procrastinating. I need to get details about what I need to be doing to get an internship somewhere, but I’m feeling rather “meh” about the whole thing.

Well, time to get on my English homework. Yes, another level of English. -_-; Wish I could test out, but it’s business writing so I suppose I should pay attention.

Much ♥ — talk to everyone soon.

For my CS332A final, I decided to make an RSS feed that listed my most recently updated projects for the eFiction script including skins, modifications, and plug-in type functions such as blocks and panels. I installed it in the header of my personal site (rather than crux, which seems to hate me right now) so RSS capable browsers would automatically make it available to my users.

XML Project Feed: project.xml

I originally wanted to do both an RSS feed as well as an XML document listing all my available projects. The RSS feed came together quickly, though I did have some problems getting it to validate correctly. (I kept wanting to use 4 letter month abbreviations and it took me a while to realize it wanted only 3 letter abbreviations.) Unfortunately, I didn’t have the same luck with my project list. I guess I didn’t understand XSL as well as I thought I did, because I’m having a problem figuring out what I’m doing wrong.

If you’d like to see my project list XML document, you can find it here: full_project_list.xml

I do plan on finishing it up eventually, I really do need something to keep my projects straight. Once I finish up the rest of my finals, I’ll probably return to it just to see if I can finish before midnight.