I've been working on a particular music website lately, rewriting it in a different language. The goal is to bring musicians back to a quality, feature-rich site.
No, I'm not working on Trax in Space 2.0, despite the rumors I'm sure are surfacing.
It is OSMusic.Net I am tuning up, moving it into ASP.Net. I haven't had a whole lot of success making a real website with ASP.Net yet, but I've got plenty of experience from working on .Net at work that makes me feel far more comfortable than I did about 6 months ago.
So what's the new OSMusic.Net going to feature? Lots of AJAX, if you can believe that. While I'm still dead set against the security that AJAX offers, I still believe that it can be useful for presentation, and I plan to put a lot into the presentation aspect of OSM. Microsoft has come out with a fairly polished set of AJAX controls for ASP.Net that are really easy to use, keeping ugly JavaScript out of my code. Granted, I'm still going to use it for things like localizing a user's time and removing dead links from a page, but that's nicely tucked away into its own file, and won't be changing from the ASP version to the ASP.Net version.
What else will be new? Well, I have some plans for some new features that will make the user experience more personable, including friends lists, favorite songs, and more. Also, the collaboration features I've been wanting to work on for so long will be added to this version. There will also be a new look, along with the possibility to easily change that look, should someone come with a design that looks better than designs I come up with.
Other projects... well, I'm just not up for coding much else lately. I put a lot of thought into Cent, but never go back to the code, partly because of the time it would take to set up a CrystalSpace environment on my main computer, and partly because of the fact it's in C++, which is a language that just doesn't excite me. Hopefully some day I'll get that drive back that I had going good for a while last year.
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In California, truck license plates are 7 characters, all numbers except for one letter in either the second or the sixth position. Whenever that letter is an X, I get nerd snipped into treating it as a multiplication problem and solving it in my head.
we should have paid more attention to the cats who, for decades, put their bodies on the line to walk on keyboards and sit on laptops and prevent us from programming
Former 2 time world champion DogPlayingTetris becomes the first player to ever rollover the level counter in NES Tetris, performing what's known in the community as "Rebirth". Final score: 29,486,164, 4216 lines, level 347 (256 + 91)... all huge world records. #tetris
I'd also love a 6 hour layover overnight instead of taking the red eye I was going to take and be 7 hours later getting into Cleveland than I wanted, why do you ask? #airporthell
Why yes, I'd love to leave at 4:40 to get to the airport at 6:20 for an 8:20 flight that got delayed to 9:05 which is too late for my connection so now I'm on a 10:20 flight instead. Why do you ask? #airporthell
@shanselman Who at Microsoft do I have to bribe to fix ADO so that those of us on dark mode who copy/paste text from one task to another can do so without our friends on light mode seeing dark text on a dark background?
I updated the blog post with a statement from Revival. While I'm not particularly happy with Revival's decision, I understand their motives. It's just a shame that it was someone from Interplay that had to go and do this. "By games for gamers" my ass.
Damn, got another Tetris world record! This time in the arcade variant developed by Atari. 6,008,005 points, 5,386 lines, round 363. Be warned, it's nearly FIVE HOURS. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2131759212