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Works well

June 21, 2006
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The comments system is up and running, all changes made successfully. From now on, everyone can comment without registration, though if you don’t want to get impersonated, you may favour registering – it’s not complicated but guards you somewhat.

If you get any errors, please report them so i can correct all little bugs.

The only thing still remaining is the spam filter, which will take a while – not because it’s hard to make, but because i have to collect all possible spam words, without closing out legitimate comments. I also added an instant comment remover, so if anyone does anything that i don’t like, i can delete the comment in one click.

Finish

June 21, 2006
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Not as if i finished anything (save the comments system, which is working fine – for me), on the contrary, i have done hardly anything except planning (yeah, still only planning) the system DB should work, and wrote some of the XSLT sheets to format the data (you’ll get a lot of that).

Finish is referring to finishing this day. Yeah, i’m already (once again) fed up with sitting here hours long not completing a single function. The hard is that i’ve to find a good point to start from, or this way i’ll have to develop all parts simultaneously.

Also, i want to note a little fact i’ve stumbled upon when browsing MuggleNet: the fifth Harry Potter book, Order of the Phoenix was released exactly three years and a day ago. How nostalgic. Surprising time runs so fast, since i can clearly remember reading my sister’s english version of the book in my room daylong months before the hungarian one was even released. It was so fun =). Just as back last summer, when i was doing the same with the sixth book (i got my own copy when i was on holiday).

By the way, here comes another pic i found on the net long-long ago, no idea where.

Plans

June 21, 2006
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I’ve started working on the new comments system, the result of that is comments are not working at all. At least, you can’t add any now. I plan to solve this by tomorrow.

I also planned most of the new Digimon Backup system today. It’ll be pretty complex to make, but this way written down, it seems it will take much less time than the AN project, even though i’ll write a forum engine too this time. Yeah, you read well, i will create my own forum engine for Digimon Backup. It’ll be very fast (according to the plans).

Comments?

June 20, 2006
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I’m asking for your opinion, my dear visitors: should i enable not registered people to post comments?

Fun.

June 20, 2006
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I was just thinking how should DB work… I ended at the following scheme:

  • add data to MySQL database in XML format, after correcting, validating and everything
  • get data using PHP. Generate dynamic XSLT file according to the type of the page (character bio, movie or episode review, etc) with PHP, and use that to convert the XML data from the database to XHTML. This is definitely the hardest part.
  • display the final thing.

The news system will be based on my previous works, very basic, just the most neccessary things included. I’ll write a topsite code, a link exchange and a network system, a gallery, a forum, so all the coding and scripts of the site will be self-made, no outsider codes will be used.

The layout is naturally all valid CSS2+XHTML1.1, just as all my recent works. I think it already looks nice, but i’ll surely refine it in the future, before releasing it finally (what should happen very soon, because the old host is making my files there disappear). I’ll write some new pages, and rewrite most of the old ones, what will be a nice big work in addition to the coding.

I don’t plan to work anymore today, rather plan everything on paper, so it won’t take so much time tomorrow. I did that with the AN Community Site (a project that i’ll revive now the summer break is in), but then it didn’t work well… =) now, with the experiences from back then, i hope it’ll be more successful timesaver.

I love working on sites like these… i must be crazy =)

Digimon Backup

June 19, 2006
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Today i’ll work on my main content site, Digimon Backup. The new domain for it is already active, so i only need to convert and rewrite the old content (which will probably take a pretty while), make some new scripts (another time-consuming thing) and fit everything in the new layout i created.

It’ll be a nice big work, but at least i can do something i like. The site will stay bilingual, so available in both enlish and hungarian. It’s more fun like that, not to mention i can get hits from both local and foreign digimon communities. Rather say, i want to create a local digimon community to get hits from, since there are only a few (max 2) other sites in addition to DB that has the chance do such a thing.

Now i’m off working… WRB

Finally!

June 17, 2006
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The domain is finally redirected! This post is already stored in the database of the new host. The configuration of the space and everything is in progress, but i already welcome hostees. If you want to get hosted, send me an e-mail, but first read the hosting rules! You can find out what my hosting offers on this page.

I’m busy with setting everything up, so i hope you won’t mind if i don’t write a much longer post now. See you later.

Still…

June 17, 2006
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I’m still waiting for the nameservers to update. Wonder how long will it take. Because about 3 days have already passed since i requested the domain redirect (i can’t directly control this domain), i emailed the contact person asking how long it will take.

I’ve already moved most of the files and the database to the new host, but since it doesn’t work as of yet, i’ll continue posting here, and move these posts there as soon as it’ll get available.

I’ve already finished the new splash concept, with a new layout, new structure and everything. It looks ok in my opinion, very retro, and finally it’s compatible with all browsers.

If everything goes well, i’ll probably implement the google adsense service too, because it’ll be much more convenient for me to receive money from google to the paypal account i use to pay for the domain and hosting, so i won’t have to use my credit card for these things (it’s not the simplest thing to transfer funds from my card to the paypal account).

But that’s still the future, the damn DNS servers are sabotageing my plans once again…

Big one

June 16, 2006
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Today i had a nice bikeride over to Fülek in Slovakia. It took about two and a half hours and according to the speed-o-meter it was about 45 kilometers to and fro. When i arrived home i instantly drank about a litre of some kind of juice, i was so thirsty – foolish me, i only drank a glass of tea before leaving, what proved to be far less than enough.

On the way i met with the recently installed (must be so, since i haven’t seen them before) speed indicators twice, and i think it was a very good idea to install them. There is a camera on the side of the road, that measures the speed of the nearing vehicle (be it a car, a truck or a bicycle), and displays it on a projector above. I don’t think it records the speeds, maybe it does so, but i don’t care much – those who exceed speed limits, thus endangering pedestrians and cyclists like me deserve to be punished.

To end this writing i just want to tell you some facts (mostly recorded with the speedometer of my bike). My top speed was 59.4km/h (downhill near Ragyolc) – i wanted to reach 60, but i got inside town so i stopped accelerating. The average was around 18km/h, so few because on the way back i was very tired, and the road was a climber (not very much, but said i was tired, so it was too much). I was so tired because i never switched back from the hardest gear, not even on the steepest slopes, so i think it’s quite understandable…

Before…

June 15, 2006
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I mean before i post the podcast, which will be a song from the 2004 album Spinefarm Hardcovers, i just want to tell you that finally today i bought the new webspace, the new domain, asked the admin (since valerauko.net is not completely under my control) to redirect the domain to the new space, it’s only the matter of time, when the whole new thing will be available and online and running and everything.

So, here comes the podcast. Last night i started with this song when i tried to fall asleep. It’s from the album named before, which contains mighty great songs of mighty great bands performed by the greatest bands of the Spinefarm label. So, the song is originally performed by Twisted Sister, and it’s title is We’re not gonna take it. The artist of this version is a band called Thee Ultra Bimboos (silly name…), and it’s pretty good. Let’s hear it.

Title: We’re not gonna take it
Artist: Thee Ultra Bimboos
Album: Spinefarm Hardcovers
Length: 03:20
Link: http://valenet.uw.hu/podcast/20060614.mp3