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Archive for January 2009
But it works, unlike a lot I’ve seen, I wrote up a basic client for it:
http://graymatter.hostkiwi.co.uk/php-client/
and you can register at: http://graymatter.hostkiwi.co.uk/php_framework/testsite/register.php
It checks if it’s up on the client page :p. This was all coded between like, 2:50 this morning and now so don’t expect a ton. Might release server source later on imcedev or something..
Since I have nothing technology/coding related that I did today (I was just hanging out with a friend) I will do a little plug for a great Seattle based placed. Sushi Land!
All my plates
I ate like, 7 plates. Which anywhere else would be around $20, like at a store (I was hungry today 
)
It’s a great deal and was plugged on a local radio station (Kiro) yesterday which explains the packing today.
Plate Prices: $1.50 for orange (California Rolls and the goodstuff), $1 for green plates (which are like, crab stuffed seaweed, bit cheaper), $2-3 for the blue plates (The expensive stuff ).
This place is at the bottom of Queen Anne hill which if you know the area it won’t be hard to find (It’s along the 4’s busroute). The sushi is cheap, the place is good.
If your in the area / live here, just go check it out .
Maybe I will do something tech related later to post about.
There’s a long story behind this and in the coming days, all will be explained.
But I now present to you the code of a page using the ego framework, when we get it all finished properly it will be awesome:
The internet before ego:
<html>
<head>
<title>The ugly page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>The Ugly Page</h1><br />
<div id="bla">This page sucks, loads links normally, and doesn't come out of the browser looking good. Why would a market-demographic like a teenager or somebody want to look at this page? Unless your a coder and it's full of awesome content, you don't.</div>
</body>
</html>
The internet after ego:
<?php
include('ego_framework.php');
$ego = new ego();
$ego->__init();
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>The new hot page</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo $ego->WriteHeadBar(); ?>
<h1>The HOT Page</h1><br />
<div id="bla">This page doesn't suck because it used the 'Ego' framework, it looks nice and is auto stylized with the 'ego' template. And don't worry about CSS classes ego's JS system will take care of that.<a href="two.php" type="ajax">Click here</a></div>
<?php echo $ego->WriteFooterBar(); ?>
<div id="extra-footer">And here ego's JS system will automatically stylize this bit. For copyrights and shit</div>
</body>
</html>
two.php:
<div id="bla">This content will be dynamically loaded and replaced! All with a simple link</div>
It’s awesome, make pages look good and enter a network of sites. And use OpenLogin’s existing framework(<< secret) at the same time. Cool.
More news on this and it’s big parent project in a couple days. Expect blog about sushi later.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&item=140293407976
I got it for $58, I already have a universal AC adaptor that works with it (I can test since I have another one in the house but it’s not mine). I already have harddrive here, sitting around. A 120GB laptop harddrive. + I got more memory for it(2 GB).
Now $58 for a 1.7Ghz working laptop shell with 1GB ram already installed, that is just awesome.
So an awesome plug for this guy: http://myworld.ebay.com/buybest12 .
But I already have a laptop? Why a new one?
School. Having to take the Metro / Public Transport daily and going to school with a $700 laptop seemed crazy to me. But this laptop will be almost as nice (screen isn’t as big though ) and it cost me $58.
Plus having 2 laptops is just nice 
. So if I screw up my main one or something. Will post pics after laptop surgery is done.
So I create a lot of internet sites. And I know people that create a lot of internet sites. And I like it this way, I like having 100’s of sites that I visit. But the annoying thing is the globalized login system.
This has actually been in the works for a while, since somewhere near the start of Axcid. It was never fully documented as a login system and got cut out of the latest Axcid API version.
The goal? To create a network of sites. What the plan was?
So I’d like to hear your thoughts on this idea, as a developer, would you use a freely availible login framework? Would people be open to the idea of a site directory? Would developing this into all products be worthwhile? Leave a comment by going to the full post link or drop me a line @ anon@nati0n.org and tell me your thoughts.
It’s a shame but there client is for sale. The 1 public room (beach) comes with it. The client is well coded and has great features. Includes pathfinding, SQL based login, server which uses MD5 for passwords. You get all custom coded sources.
The price is $200, I have somebody lined up who has the cash in hand and is offering slightly less but I need the cash as soon as possible. So if he get’s the cash in paypal first he get’s it first. It goes out the door for $200. I’m especially intrested in buyers who can pay preferably by tonight.
It’s a shame since I liked paradise isle but I really need the cash now and I will be happy to code them a new client when they get the cash.
For an extra $5 I would be happy to document the protocol aswell.
It really goes to the best offer first so if you have like, $180 tonight contact [b]anon@nati0n.org[/b] and you will probably get it.
So I had been looking for something new and intresting to explore beyond music sites, google maps, and image hosts recently and I wanted to do something cool, new and stylish.
TapShirt, a site that (will hopefully) use the CafePress API and an online store to try and sell custom designed shirts. Technically the API creates the shirts on-the-fly with SVG and other graphics technologies but that’s the ‘tech side’. I got that covered.
But what I don’t have are:
-Unlimited servers really..
-An artist who can create layouts.
-Shirt Designs..
-I can’t even afford a freakin’ domain..
Of course would do a store XML API and aggregate content from other sites so we can sell other sites shirts / merchandise for them.
As for life-wise tommorow I gotta go to some orientation for Nova, I don’t understand why they want to move me to a ’smart school’ when I don’t work well at my current one. Hey maybe it will actually be cool(lol).
Currently in very early beta, imgbox is a basic image uploader that cuts the crap. You are sent DIRECTLY to the REAL image after uploading, hotlinking is ofcourse allowed. This service is in very early beta and expect more features to come:
http://imgbox.hostkiwi.co.uk/
tinyurl.com/imgbox .
Yep, I got time, 10 minutes before I leave so…
How to collect and sell data about people:
1. Start with tracking:
If you can track users between YOUR sites thats a start. Now I could use something like RedDot to create a ’stat tracking’ image that logs the referer, IP (or IP hash on ‘nicer’ networks ), and the visited sites. Once you can do that, you have enough to start creating a profile of that user.
2. So what do you have:
You have information you can use to profile a user. Let’s say you found a user who visits Myspace and Facebook, it would make sense to send them an ad for a site that does something like, Social Integration between myspace and FaceBook. That’s something they would be likely to click and then make YOU money.
3. Start selling this information:
If you really wanna rake in the cash then you could create a XML Based API to access your ad profiles. That way you could readily query your server for a users profile, this information / access sells well and you can charge any way you want for this data really.
4. Get people to put your dot on there site:
Now get your dot on as many sites as possible, the tracking ‘image’ and the bigger the better. The more sites you can track a user across the more they are worth.
Now you know the secret to making cash online, don’t rip my ideas . Who wants to work on RedDot?
http://graymatter.hostkiwi.co.uk/maps_experiment/#
Best viewed with FireFox 3, Fullscreen mode. Search does not seem to work in google chrome and I do NOT expect it to work in IE.
But anyways this was me learning the Google Maps API, GeoCoding and AJAX all in one day, plus some cool UI tricks.
F11 does the fullscreen for firefox 3 on windows btw 
. Now let’s tear the thing apart:
I used the google maps api (http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/) and tried to learn as much as possible. My own code to generate the 3 buttons used. AJAX for the search and google / my code for the ajax search (geosearch.php). That basically created and parsed calls to a geocoder which converted the search query into a latitude / longitude pair. That was then passed in my navigation function thru the XMLHTTP object and then eval’d. So my function would run and navigate it.
A pretty cool way to learn ajax and the maps api huh? I’ll give the source to anyone who is intrested but the page source tells a lot of the story . Great learning experience. I’m gonna go take a look at what other API’s google has .
EDIT:
Screenshot of the original running fullscreen: http://graymatter.hostkiwi.co.uk/supercool.png
before it had supercool stuff