Posts Tagged ‘the-spot.net’

tsn.7 Style in progress

Concepts, Programming, Projects, Updates, tech, the-spot.net | Posted by [[Neo]] April 30th, 2008

I’ve started work on the tsn.7 style and theme for the new forums, and I must say, it’s lookin’ pretty sweet. Once I get a working set going, I’ll redo the splash page to give a bit of a preview and then load it up to the forum index.

Let’s just say it’s very…shiny.

I’m still using the same blues, and there is no new logo this time (although there were attempts at creating a new one). But it combines the look and feel of tsnV with the 2 years of design experience I’ve gained since then.

No screen shots yet; I don’t have it set up with any forum information yet to show what it would look like. But if you would like to join the testers that will be using the tsn.7 theme while it gets built, then you can change it in your User Control Panel, under Board Preferences.

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twitter & tsn.7

Concepts, Programming, Projects, Updates, tech, the-spot.net | Posted by [[Neo]] January 30th, 2008

With a new My Spot page comes new possibilities. This time around, I’m going to make a concerted effort to actually write in new code and attach a new database backend that pulls from the phpbb database and the users’ accounts on the-spot.net.With this new plan, there will be increased ability to add features and remove features on the user-level…that is to say, you can choose what you want to see on the page. Read the rest of this entry »

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[[Oracle]] Reborn, tsnlocal goes up beta

Concepts, Updates, [[Oracle]], [m3rlin], tech, the-spot.net, tsnLocal.net | Posted by [[Neo]] September 11th, 2006

This weekend, I hung out with [wizard] and we worked on our servers. He created his [m3rlin] server, and I created my [[Oracle]] server.

Originally, as you might recall from previous posts, [[Oracle]] is an IRC bot that we use for auto responding and chanserv purposes. Our bots are still the same in function so far, but they each have their own computer.

[[Oracle]] is now the webserver for tsnlocal.net, and runs the tsn.lcl project. It’s hosting a hamachi client, and serveral tsnlocal network connections. It’s also using Google Desktop those network shares, so that I can make them web-searchable, and the files downloadable for those connected to the tsnlocal network. I’m still working on the technology to provide the search page to the outside world (though the files will only be accessible to those who are connected and authenticated to the hamachi network.

To do this, I have installed WAMP (Apache, MySQL, and PHP for Windows) and put it on an XP Professional box. There is a main webpage up right now that shows the online status of [[Oracle]] and [[Oracle]].1 (a secondary server, of which there is also an [[Oracle]].2 which will be used later). The webpage also shows the online status of those involved with the tsnlocal project. The design of the webpage is still under construction though, at the moment.

[[Oracle]] is also hosting some other services for tsn…things that aren’t directly tied to the website, per se…like a TeamSpeak server, Blockland game server, and some other stuff that I haven’t gotten to set up yet.

It’s also been brought to my attention that there is a security exploit in Apache for windows, and [[Oracle]] will be the test-bed for solving that exploit. I have a solution in mind that would work, but might be a bit difficult to set up – though it would solve the problem until a patch is fixed. I’ll post more on that when I get some time to test it.

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Update: tsnX – tsnX-lite theme, et al.

Concepts, The-Spot.Network, Updates, tech, the-blot.net, the-spot.net | Posted by [[Neo]] July 3rd, 2006

So it’s time for an update. The tsnX-lite theme is up, and has been since the LAN party. Let me know what you think. It’s not all the way finished yet…I’m still working on it, and 4 others based on it.

I’m also going to be working on two versions of the former “My Spot” page…one that is universal, and one that is user-oriented/customized. The customized one (My Spot) will be written in AJAX, the universal one (The Spot) will be in php.

The new My Spot page will also be the basis for the My Blot page, that will be the essence of the-blot.net – insomuch as the settings will be saved per user on the My Spot page, and will be accessible by user_id…whereas the My Blot page will be accessible by username: the-blot.net/KD or /~day_dreamer~ or /Agent%20Smith.

There will be further posts concerning what the details of all the pages will contain…but greater emphasis will be placed on the photoalbum, journals, profiles, and buddy lists with the coming pages.

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Update: tsnX.3 @ 43%

Updates, tech, the-spot.net | Posted by [[Neo]] May 19th, 2006

We’re now at 43% complete with the code implementations. Be sure to check the progress page. I’m trying to get things done more quickly, because I believe that I’m about to come into a job soon. I had two interviews with job placement firms, and one is going to be placing me in a low-level tech job, if they have openings. The other is going to help me get my IT cert’s if I can come up with the money some how. So my time for this personal technology is going to be divided among corporate technology.

We’re shooting for a end-of-may release for tsnX…and I really hope that I can do that. Designing the new site is going to take time too, and there are about 10 days till the end of the month, and about 5 days of coding left (assuming that every code implementation goes as planned) and then 5 days left for modifying the template of the site to look like tsnX.

I hope to make it on time, but as version releases in the past of indicated, I rarely am able to get a site out on schedule, because of difficulties and other things that intrude on my time. But it’s coming. Yesterday it was 26%, today, 43%.

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