I think I will start working on the site again soon. I just have to fix my expired copy of Windows 7 on my laptop so that it stops restarting every 2 hours. There will be some big changes to the code, design, and pretty much everything in the site. Mostly because I didn't comment most of my code and now when I go back in there I won't really know what's going on.

So it's been about 14 days since my last post and in that post I said that my time was being taken up by some WoW'ing and other stuff. Which was the case at the time, I was really getting into leveling my paladin and doing dungeon finder and what not. However the past week has been like hell for me and I really haven't been doing much except watching TV and being in pain. I got a real jacked up tooth going on in here and I see the dentist tomorrow, hopefully they'll take care of it or give me something to make the pain go away until I get it removed. It's the main reason I haven't done any work at all on the site and it sucks because it's getting to the point where I will forget what a lot of my code does. So the next process for me might be relearning my code by going in a adding comments to all the stuff. We'll see, hopefully the next update won't be 14 days from now.

Live long and prosper, I have been getting some Star Trek Online open beta play in when the pain isn't too bad. Aside from server issues the game is pretty awesome. However every time I play it I can't help but remember Star Wars Galaxies and think how it should have been like STO is when it launched and how much more awesome it would have been, if it had space combat in at launch.

Yeah I haven't posted anything since the last post that said more 1.5 goodness was coming last weekend. It's all cool though, WoW sucked me back in with it's 3.3 Dungeon Finder and Christmas holiday event. It's the last event I need on my Death Knight to get me an awesome pink dragon, which I did just get tonight. 

I have been working on 1.5 still but just not that much. There are also a lot of changes going on that are going into 1.5 that weren't planned. One of them taking a lot of time is renaming the database tables and fields. So stay tuned cause there will be more of 1.5 pushed live soon.

Some exciting news, on my test server I have discovered the way Avatars will be dynamically rendered. I didn't upload any of the stuff yet because it's very early and it renders a pre-determined avatar. Tomorrow I will focus on the code more to get it to load an avatar based on dynamic elements.

Unfortunately the process to do this does not like my 32bit PNG's and I will have to convert all of my PNG's to 8bit, but that's not a big deal since they didn't use more than 8bit color anyways. Plus this will reduce the file size of the images some, even though they were small to begin with. Really it's just a pain to save them as 8bit, it's like 6 extra steps, but I'm glad I got the avatar base code figured out.

Huzzah, fewls.

Some improvements to the My application have been pushed lived. The two new features are user profiles that can be viewed by clicking on the user name from the blog author or comment author area. Along with this is an active users and active count module on the right of a lot of the pages. So check them out they're part of a list of features I've determined that are "needed" for a working battle simulator.

Update 1.3 is going to be pushed live later tonight, few more updates are sitting on my laptop right now. Update 1.4 planning and code will also start later tonight. Since I am posting this from my phone I cant make a list of plans for 1.4 but I can say that lots of account page and some registration improvements will be coming in 1.4, so stay tuned. Also just a reminder your login username is your email, when 1.3 final goes up the login form will be changed to reflect this and will say email instead of username.

The new design is coming together awesomely, a large portion of it has been pushed to live. Check out the new blog and post views. Register and leave comments about how you feel.

A small cosmetic feature has been pushed live, it now shows the avatar of the post author in the body of the blog post. Eventually the system will be able to make and save the avatars in that folder, however right now they must be manually built in fireworks using the different armor pieces. My avatar uses a brand new hood, robe, and gloves I just got done making. On top of those is a baldric that I've had for awhile.

Some things that are going to be coming soon to the site:

• Registration System - Private via Unique Serial.
• Blog Comments - Authorized users only, global view.
• Battle Test Simulator - Simulator for Mana Heroes battles.
• Avatar Creator - Create a basic Avatar with hair and eye choices.
• Friends / Enemies - A Friends and Enemies system.
• Private Messaging - A private messaging system.

Aside from that, many more improvements and fixes will be forthcoming.

Stay tuned for more info, fewls.

This post has been updated. New parts are in bold. The number of times this post has been updated is now reflected in the bottom post number, the post ID is 5 and the number of updates is 3, for a total of 5.3 and all further posts going forward will use this system.

This is my very first blog post. The blog web interface is semi-complete. Security isn't very good right now but it's not important as I'm the only blog poster. The interface doesn't look very good either, but that can easily be fixed.

Enjoy fewls.