Archive for July, 2004

It would be cool if domains propogated faster – like instantly :). There is nothing worse than waiting around for them especially considering that they take anywhere from 12 to 48 hours. It will be good once Nerd Federation is officially back at the point we can start spreading the URL around again. Ah well, the time should come soon.

Time for today is publishing on and I really should start law revision but I am finally making visible process on my new site. It has an intergrated forum and I am moving towards finishing the posting and editing section then I only have the move topics section and the forum code guide and editor. Oh, its going to be a long night / a long week.

Well best get started with the random tips and information. One thing I am not happy about is this editor tells me I am using Verdana 8px, but when it comes out in the page it is Times New Roman! The blow is slightly cushioned for myself however as my browser, Beonex, uses Arial as the default font. A nice bit of scripting in the editor though means it is not compatable with Beonex – neither is vBulletin!

So before the moans side tracked me, I was getting into my story. Having started doing some stuff in PHP to make sure of forcetype and stats on subdomains (just wait until I get an ASP.net rewrite engin!) I found a few helpful bits of information that spent much time annoying me and ended up really simple. Most notably, not remember == for comparissions.

One other thing I noticed is that although you can redirect a user using the header location tag, it doesn’t actually stop the PHP script running. So the user may have been sent elsewhere but the thing they were not allowed to do and you had throught been stopped doing it because of the header location code you added, is still actually being done. It’s easy to fix though, all you need is:

Header ("Location: whateverpage.php");
Exit ();

Hmm, yet another over complication of PHP if you ask me. Still I’m kind of on a high right now as this editor is pretty cool. It has some quite extensive image adding features and plenty of HTML options. I give it my offical stamp of "neeto!" Well, I will probably be able to keep myself away for like an hour at tops, see you then.

After a long talk with everyone else involved in Nerd Federation (well, less of a talk, more of I am going to tell them later), Nerd Federation has been brought back online but these time as somewhat of a blog portal. That said none of you lower scum will be posting ;). It’s pretty much just myself, Ceon and Rawpulse that get to post entries, though the rest of you can post comments.

Random subjects are always cool and that’s the best thing about a blog. You can just come on and make a post pretty much about anything and yet you still don’t end up with the pointless comments and discussions that you often find on forums, indeed that you used to find on the Nerd Federation forum. If you can find your way past the entry portal page that is!

So prepare to be overwhelmed by fun as we post random comments that just make no sense…