Made up a random app that uses c# to index the files on a dvd/cd/drive and let you search them via MySQL. Useful more for dvd/cd “mosh-pit” backups where there’s no organization whatsoever.
Problem is, I’ve no idea how exactly to -publish- an app like this, nor do I have a clue how to make it so you can specify certain bits of information so it’ll work on anything but a default MySQL install that comes with XAMPP.
Good news? Works for finding stuff. Irritates me a bit when I searched the discs 3 times for where my emergency backup of System Shock 2 was, and I could’ve just spent the 60 minutes to get the app working for indexing (it can’t search, I was using XAMPP’s install of PHPMyAdmin to search it for now), and discovered it’s on Backup 3, under the folder “Plastic Hammer.” Why it’s under that folder, no idea.
Next project? Time machine so I can go back and ask myself -why- it’s in the Plastic Hammer folder.
Buddy of mine got me restarted on SysAlive 3 again, we actually located some bugs I need to fix (greeeeat, means I’m re-writing cause the old code is hideous, although it’s more cause I didn’t know what I was doing with some of the stuff).
And the wordpress Avatar thing I had needed updating, updated that too. Cheers!
Really hardly keeping things updated, aren’t I?
Here’s some irony – those GRID accident reel videos are actually already uploaded and ready to DivX Web Player view, but I’m so lazy I didn’t put in a rough bandwidth calculator so should they happen to get linked and viewed too many times (doubtful at best), it’d full-stop that section of the site.
I might try uploading to youtube later but I’m not positive they’ll agree with my use of DivX. It’ll probably degrade the video even more than it already is.
Other than that, mucking about a bit more with Ajax and PHP, seeing what kinds of things I can put together. Gots me an idea for a game engine, not entirely positive it’ll work, but the idea is there so who knows.
Prolly do something redonkulous like Tic-Tac-Toe as Proof-Of-Concept though.
But that’s about it so far. Been in a rather large coding slump, although I -did- end up taking a bunch of GRID videos and spliced them together to Spiderbait’s 5th Set in DivX format, might just be able to get that uploaded here later.
Hopefully I can, my parents seemed to think it was cool (although my dad was just like “Games’ve come a long way since PacMan…”)