The Program

Well, IPv6 has been a topic talked about for years, but this is the first year that I have seen it starting to be implemented. My friend stumbled upon http://ipv6experiment.com, which is a very interesting, daring, brilliant, and humerus way to attract people to IPv6. Google also launched ipv6.google.com to cater to the IPv6 audience.

Overall, I think this year will start the push towards IPv6. With google’s support, the government’s new requirement for all branches to support IPv6, and this “grand experiment”, I think IPv6 may have a chance in the world.

I just finished writing another PHP script that I’ve entitled “MiniGallery”.  It is used to embed a small gallery right into a page with a little HTML/PHP.  Check it out at http://www.redgalaxy.net/minigallery.

Turns out that the “downgrade” was my own foolishness.  Somehow I had accidently deleted the htaccess file in my home directory that controls the PHP versiosn.  Oh well, at least I figured it out.

In the case of Microsoft Windows machines, sometimes downgrading is better.  Even in the case of some games, down grading can help the player.  But my host downgrading my PHP version from 5.x to 4.x is simply outrageous.

I first noticed this today when I go to log on to my Question-Answer website to see if there are any questions posted that need answering.  Right when I jump on the home page I see PHP spewing out all sorts of errors about how I’m using str_replace incorrectly.. which is a relatively common function and rather difficult to break.  My first instinct is to check if I was hacked [again], so I look into all the databases and files, and everything is perfectly fine and unchanged.

I then check the php manual to see if they discovered any recent bugs.  It’s there that I saw that the str_replace I use only supported in 5.x, so something clicks.  I print out phpversion(), and what do you know, I’m running 4.x! I’ve been downgraded!

So, please, have some patience with me and my host.  if this isn’t corrected soon, they will find an angry email in their inbox tomorrow morning.

I have created a video tutorial outlining some of the basic functions of phpMyAdmin.  This includes database and table creation, inserting data rows into the table, row functions, and general database layout.

Enjoy, and feel free to comment.  Below you can find the high quality version of this video:

I’ve recently discovered the website twitter.com where users can post short messages about what they’re doing.  It’s a great website, though it appears that it needs some maintenance.  Once upon a time it had many features (such as IM updates and cellphone service) that are no longer avaiable because of high volume.  Well fix those services! They have been unavailable for over two months now.. and you’re losing users!

Other than that, it does exactly what it’s described to do.  Update friends, family, and other people with what you’re doing.  Great little program – but would love to see some improvements.

I may or may not try to embed my current status on this webpage.  Depends how good their API looks.

The next project I hope to be working on is a web-based file explorer.  I had been writing one ages ago but then I discovered some core issues with the development and it stopped production.

Now, given my new knowledge on AJAX and PHP web programming, I hope to restart the project with even more advanced features and security updates.  It should be just like every other file viewer out there, but with my own special features.  Some of the features I intend to include, besides the obvious (upload/download): Picture viewing, video viewing, audio listening (using flash client), full AJAX updating – meaning no page loading, along with information on a per-file basis provided by AJAX.

I hope to release this application within the next few weeks.

Hey hey. Welcome to the beginning of my new webpage. One of my goals with this new site (as you can see is based on Wordpress) will to be posting many more informative articles online. With my previous software this was difficult to do. The whole CMS was homebrew and to add any sort of plugin or module to the site took a lot of time and effort. Just viewing the whole thing from a cost benefit analysis perspective showed that it took way too much time to maintain the website making it harder and harder to provide information to the viewer. Hopefully by using a 3rd party CMS this will simplify things. As you can see, though, I’ve put in a good bit of effort creating a custom template for the website to make it have a similar feel to the old website. Hopefully my work has paid off.

Over the next few days you will be seeing other additions to the website, and I hope you all enjoy the information. And please feel free to contact me. My inbox is lonely without emails from everyone!