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Been a while since I’ve published anything here, but I’m far from inactive Graduated high school, currently going to a community college. Finally achieved Eagle Scout, so thats a big one =) Still running with my old team, decided to see those I ran with through their senior year. Most importantly for you all, I’ve gotten myself back into coding partly due to the next evolutionary step for BB, as well as having been recruited onto the official Zathyus Networks Resources Code Team (how that happened after my long hiatus I still don’t know XD). So after that I’ve managed to get up to speed again rather quickly, and began working on some of the biggest, innovative, and unique major codes of my career thus far. Though few have seen the light of day yet, they are making their way there =) So anyways, that’s your update from me!

Wow, it’s been so long since I made any updates here. Finished with track season as well as school now though, so I should be able to focus more time on coding and this.

I have a ton of new awesome ideas for projects as well, just have to figure out which ones are practically doable find the time to fit them in for making. Included is the ZetaBox, which I told people I would begin work on after school let out. So I’ll try to get on that sometime soon and hopefully keep you guys updated on progress. In addition, Big Boards is undergoing some big changes with it’s soon to come conversion to ZetaBoards. As well as converting all the old features, we’re going to be presenting a ton of new ones the likes of which the IF/ZB community has never seen! So sit tight

Isn’t it great when you think you’ve come up with something totally unique, to find out it’s already been done? Still, havn’t seen thism ake it’s way to the IF/ZB community as of yet, so maybe I’ll be the one to introduce it =D

The idea is known as JSON ((JavaScript Object Notation). What it does is allows you to dynamically retrieve new content on the same page, much like AJAX, but from remote servers. It is also only limited to retrieving javascript files. Considering it’s potential in our community where PHP isn’t allowed directly on the server, I’m suprised I haven’t seen it in use before.

Here’s an actual example of what it can do. I recently took upon me the task of recreating the Big Boards code and skin indexes, and part of my plan was to put all the entries into a database, which would allow us to add and edit much easier, as well as giving us the ability to do searches and such. I wanted the searches update on the page without a reload, which could have been done with AJAX, except I also needed it to load on Big Boards itself.  Because AJAX cannot retrieve information from my server, and iframes are a bit clunky, I came up with this new (but already invented unknown to me) method of retrieving the data. How it work in my example, is whne the page loads a script is written with a php file as the source, with several GET parameters in the URL. Then, when the user changes the search parameters, the old script is removed and a new created in it’s place, overwriting the content area with new data. Everything is loaded seamlessly within a fraction of a second.

Further practical uses, perhaps a nicely working server based auto refreshing shoutbox? I dunno, I’ll leave that part to you guys, but it has great potential =)

Bleh… being sick is no fun… Missed 3 days of running with my team, missed school thanks to sleep inducing cold medicine, and now it seems Valentines day and camping this weekend are in jeopardy Hopefully it’ll go away by then.

Hmm, not much to update on… did some shoutbox updates giving it the option to view them top to bottom, as well as a few oher small tweaks. Besides that, just been bogged with school and running and life! Hopefully to begin some new projects soon.

Finally got around to finishing yet another project from my projects page, the Member Data Exporter.

Originally made this a while back for BB, but it lacked a sufficient server and formatting so it never went public. But I have now done all that and added some new features and released it. Essentially what it does is it allows you to export various information from users on your board, such as a list of email addresses or usernames or ip addresses. Not sure how useful it will be though; I guess if you’re making a newsletter you want to email out to all your members but not from the board, this could come in handy.

How it works is you input the address of your admin cp after you login,  tell it what to collect and what to split each record with, then hit submit. The server then uses your session to automatically open up the member search feature in the background, collect all the needed information from the table on the page, then move to the next one. All the while you get some neat status text telling you the progress percentage. Once it runs out of pages, it ends the loop and pastes the results into a text area, where you then do whatever you feel like with it.

Again, not something terribly useful to be honest, but the methods used are rather interesting, and it was just something else I needed to get done at some point