akuradavis.com - Blah

Just an update after half a week.
Not much is going on. Just got my first paycheck, so I’m happy. Trying to resist the urge to just go on a buying spree. It’s a little hard. I know of all these little things i want to buy but I’m trying to look at the big picture… Should i save for more computer parts, should i get a guitar, should i buy a lot of games, should I buy some Figures to collect… I dunno. I would start saving if i knew i would have a steady job through next year but as far as i know this is only a summer arrangement, so if i started saving i wouldn’t have enough and i would be disappointing. So i probably wont save a lot of it… Hm. Well, on the more pointless albeit more interesting side there’s IPTBB and my programming endeavors. As you may (or may not) know, my job is PHP programming. Which is great, i get paid to do something I’m good at (i believe) and is entertaining to me. It has renewed my interest in PHP which has been lacking for almost half a year or more. I’m a lot more interested in PHP, but because of my job being PHP i really don’t have the urge to come home and do any work with PHP (IPTBB).

Over the weekends i try to work on it if i remember. I do still have the urge to work on it because its fun and expands my knowledge in ways my job doesn’t. Why my job lets me come up with interesting new ways for me to solve problems in php and design workarounds, IPTBB is basically my sandbox where i don’t have restrictions on what to add or how to add it. This gives it more fun for me because if i have an idea its possible to implement it with IPTBB even though it’s not needed, planned, or called for. As a matter of fact, after i do the forum permissions i was planning on doing an embedded news feed type thing, where all you have to do is include it (whether iframe, php, whatever) in code on your main website and it automatically pulls data from a specified category or forum. With some parameters such as only stickied posts, or only posts by a specific user, etc. Maybe these can be combined: Topics in the “Blogs” forum by user Akura. This makes it possible to do a blogging type site. Or it can be simple: Topics in the “News” forum. (This is why its after permissions). Even though this isn’t on the Bug Tracker, I’m still going to do it. I know that Surreal was planning on interfacing SUMR with IPTBB, maybe he will use this same feature (albeit probably heavily edited).

On another topic, i have in mind a plan for my next PHP project. I will still work on IPTBB, but this is something i want to do along side it. I won’t tell what it is yet, but just so you know it probably won’t be open source. I plan it just to be my own personal thing, although i might release it when I’m done with it. We’ll see.

Stay Tuned.